Settings#

Overview#

Wetterdienst holds core settings in its Settings class. Settings has four layers from which to be sourced:

Settings arguments e.g. Settings(ts_shape=”long”)
environment variables e.g. WD_TS_SHAPE=”wide”
local .env file in the same folder (same as above)
default arguments set by wetterdienst

The arguments are overruled in the above order meaning:

Settings argument overrules environmental variable
environment variable overrules .env file
.env file overrules default argument

The following settings are available:

General#
name	description	default
cache_disable	switch of caching	False
cache_dir	set the directory where the cache is stored	platform specific / “wetterdienst”
fsspec_client_kwargs	pass arguments to fsspec, especially for querying data behind a proxy	{}

Timeseries#
name	description	default
ts_humanize	rename parameters to more meaningful names	True
ts_shape	reshape the returned data to a long/tidy format, one of “long”, “wide”	“long”
ts_si_units	convert values to SI units	True
ts_skip_empty	skip empty stations, requires setting ts_shape=”long”, empty stations are defined via ts_skip_threshold and ts_skip_criteria	True
ts_skip_threshold	use with skip_empty to define when a station is empty, with 1.0 meaning no values per parameter should be missing and e.g. 0.9 meaning 10 per cent of values can be missing	0.95
ts_skip_criteria	statistical criteria on which the percentage of actual values is calculated with options “min”, “mean”, “max”, where “min” means the percentage of the lowest available parameter is taken, while “mean” takes the average percentage of all parameters and “max” does so for the parameter with the most percentage, requires setting ts_shape=”long”	“min”
ts_dropna	drop all empty entries thus reducing the workload, requires setting ts_shape=”long”	True
ts_interpolation_station_distance	maximum distance to the farthest station which is used for interpolation, if the distance is exceeded, the station is skipped	40.0
ts_interpolation_use_ nearby_station_until_km	distance to the nearest station which decides whether the data is used directly from this station or if data is being interpolated	1

Python#

You can import and show Settings like

In [1]: from wetterdienst import Settings

In [2]: settings = Settings.default()  # default settings, ignoring env variables

In [3]: print(settings)
Settings({
    "cache_disable": false,
    "cache_dir": "/home/docs/.cache/wetterdienst",
    "fsspec_client_kwargs": {},
    "ts_humanize": true,
    "ts_shape": "long",
    "ts_si_units": true,
    "ts_skip_empty": false,
    "ts_skip_threshold": 0.95,
    "ts_skip_criteria": "min",
    "ts_dropna": false,
    "ts_interpolation_station_distance": {
        "default": 40.0,
        "precipitation_height": 20.0
    },
    "ts_interpolation_use_nearby_station_distance": 1
})

or modify them for your very own request like

In [4]: from wetterdienst import Settings

In [5]: settings = Settings(ts_shape="wide")

In [6]: print(settings)
Settings({
    "cache_disable": false,
    "cache_dir": "/home/docs/.cache/wetterdienst",
    "fsspec_client_kwargs": {},
    "ts_humanize": true,
    "ts_shape": "wide",
    "ts_si_units": true,
    "ts_skip_empty": false,
    "ts_skip_threshold": 0.95,
    "ts_skip_criteria": "min",
    "ts_dropna": false,
    "ts_interpolation_station_distance": {
        "default": 40.0,
        "precipitation_height": 20.0
    },
    "ts_interpolation_use_nearby_station_distance": 1
})

The evaluation of environment variables can be skipped by using ignore_env:

In [7]: from wetterdienst import Settings

In [8]: Settings(ignore_env=True)
Out[8]: Settings(cache_disable:False,cache_dir:/home/docs/.cache/wetterdienst,fsspec_client_kwargs:{},ts_humanize:True,ts_shape:long,ts_si_units:True,ts_skip_empty:False,ts_skip_threshold:0.95,ts_skip_criteria:min,ts_dropna:False,ts_interpolation_station_distance:{default:40.0,precipitation_height:20.0},ts_interpolation_use_nearby_station_distance:1)

and to set it back to standard

In [9]: from wetterdienst import Settings

In [10]: settings = Settings(ts_shape="wide")

In [11]: settings = settings.reset()

If your system is running behind a proxy e.g. like here you may want to use the trust_env setting like

In [12]: from wetterdienst import Settings

In [13]: settings = Settings(fsspec_client_kwargs={"trust_env": True})

to allow requesting through a proxy.