what's new

marqh · marqh · commit 7b971c4848d8 · 2016-06-03T13:14:03.000Z
diff --git a/docs/iris/src/whatsnew/contributions_1.10/newfeature_2016-Jun-03_cell_method_parsing.txt b/docs/iris/src/whatsnew/contributions_1.10/newfeature_2016-Jun-03_cell_method_parsing.txt
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+* The parsing functionality for Cell Methods from netCDF files is available as part of the :mod:`iris.fileformats.netcdf` module.
diff --git a/lib/iris/fileformats/netcdf.py b/lib/iris/fileformats/netcdf.py
@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ def parse_cell_methods(cf_var_name, nc_cell_methods):
     * nc_cell_methods (str):
         The value of the cell methods attribute to be parsed.
 
+    >>> parse_cell_methods('varname', 'x: sum(interval:1 hr)')
+    (CellMethod(method='sum', coord_names=('x',), intervals=('1 hr',), comments=()),)
+
     """
 
     cell_methods = []

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