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On 01.06.2013 05:30, Sudheer Joseph wrote:
> some hing like a list
> xx=nc,variables[:]
> should get me all variable names with out other surrounding stuff??
>
> In [4]: ncf.variables
> Out[4]: OrderedDict([(u'LON', <netCDF4.Variable object at 0x254aad0>),
[SNIP]

It looks like "variables" is an OrderedDict. Thus

 >>> ncf.variables.keys()

should return a view (or list, depending on your python version) of all 
keys, i.e. all variable names.

Bye, Andreas