[ncl-talk] Error when writing out a text file with write_table: "fatal:process_list: can not print list in list yet."

[Rick Brownrigg]

Hi,

It seems the variable "alist" is being constructed as a list of 4 distinct
lists, and the error message indicates thats not supported. But I'm not
certain why those 4 need to be lists? What if you changed them to arrays?
Are the components not of homogeneous types (in which case, yea, arrays
won't work there).

Rick

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:57 AM Maxime Colin via ncl-talk <
ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:

> Back to my question...
>
> It looks like replacing [/ by (/ and replacing /] by /) for the different
> variables to be eventually included in the final "alist" (i.e.,
> variable_string_list, all_day_average, exp_growth_days_ave,
> exp_decay_days_ave) solves the problem! Sweet!
>
> Maxime
>
> Maxime Colin
> --------------------------------------------- <https://www.normalesup.org/phare/squirrelmail/src/compose.php?send_to=maxime.colin%40normalesup.org>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Maxime Colin <m.colin at unsw.edu.au>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 15 September 2020 4:28 PM
> *To:* ncl-talk at ucar.edu <ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
> *Subject:* Error when writing out a text file with write_table:
> "fatal:process_list: can not print list in list yet."
>
> Dear NCL-talk list,
>
> I'm trying to output an ASCII .txt file with some basic stats on my data.
> The idea is to print a list of variables (vertically), for various time
> periods (horizontally).
>
> I've already done this successfully in the past, so I don't know what I'm
> doing wrong this time.
>
> The header and footer print out well, but not the data, with should have
> 14 rows and 4 columns. To try to fix the problem I also made a test with
> meaningless data that I have commented out, such as [/11,12,13,14/]. But
> this test fails as well.
>
> I'm receiving the following error, and I don't see what's wrong with my
> list:
>
> "
> fatal:process_list: can not print list in list yet.
>
> fatal:process_list: can not print list in list yet.
> "
>
> The relevant bit of code looks like this:
>
>   variable_string_list =
> [/"PW","CAPE","CIN","LCL","LFC","temp_500hPa","rh_500hPa","mse_500hPa","qvapor_500hPa","theta_get_subcloud","rh_subcloud","mse_subcloud","qvapor_subcloud","temp_subcloud"/]
>
>   ;variable_string_list = [/"s1","s2","s3","s4"/]
>
>   all_day_average      =
> [/pw_manual_members_ave,cape_0D_members_ave,cin_0D_members_ave,LCL_members_ave,LFC_members_ave,temp_500hPa_members_ave,rh_500hPa_members_ave,mse_500hPa_members_ave,qvapor_500hPa_members_ave,theta_get_subcloud_layer_ave_members_ave,rh_subcloud_layer_ave_members_ave,mse_subcloud_layer_ave_members_ave,qvapor_subcloud_layer_ave_members_ave,temp_subcloud_layer_ave_members_ave/]
>   ;all_day_average      = [/11,12,13,14/]
>
>   exp_growth_days_ave  =
> [/avg(pw_manual_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(cape_0D_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(cin_0D_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(LCL_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(LFC_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(temp_500hPa_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(rh_500hPa_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(mse_500hPa_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(qvapor_500hPa_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(theta_get_subcloud_layer_ave_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(rh_subcloud_layer_ave_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(mse_subcloud_layer_ave_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(qvapor_subcloud_layer_ave_members(0:last_growth_day-1)),avg(temp_subcloud_layer_ave_members(0:last_growth_day-1))/]
>   ;exp_growth_days_ave  = [/5,6,7,8/]
>
>   lin = num_day_max-1
>   exp_decay_days_ave   =
> [/avg(pw_manual_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(cape_0D_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(cin_0D_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(LCL_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(LFC_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(temp_500hPa_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(rh_500hPa_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(mse_500hPa_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(qvapor_500hPa_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(theta_get_subcloud_layer_ave_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(rh_subcloud_layer_ave_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(mse_subcloud_layer_ave_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(qvapor_subcloud_layer_ave_members(last_growth_day:lin)),avg(temp_subcloud_layer_ave_members(last_growth_day:lin))/]
>   print ("pw_manual_members(last_growth_day:lin) : " +
> pw_manual_members(last_growth_day:lin))
>   ;exp_decay_days_ave   = [/1,2,3,4/]
>
>
>
>   alist = [/variable_string_list, all_day_average, exp_growth_days_ave,
> exp_decay_days_ave/]
>
>   dir_for_plots_idea = data_dir_for_plots(0)
>   header = (/"--------------------------------", \
>             "Stats about the target profiles, depending on exp growth or
> decay", \
>             alist_string, \
>             "for the targets computed with " + dir_for_plots_idea, \
>             "--------------------------------"/)
>   footer = (/"--------------------------------", \
>             "This is a file footer", \
>             "--------------------------------"/)
>
>   hlist = [/header/]
>   flist = [/footer/]
>
>
>
>
> write_table("./C02_target_profile_analysis_without_getvar/stats_for_all_day_and_exp_growth_days_and_exp_decay_days.txt",
> "w", hlist, "%s")
>
> write_table("./C02_target_profile_analysis_without_getvar/stats_for_all_day_and_exp_growth_days_and_exp_decay_days.txt",
> "a", alist, "%s%10.10f%10.10f%10.10f")
>
> write_table("./C02_target_profile_analysis_without_getvar/stats_for_all_day_and_exp_growth_days_and_exp_decay_days.txt",
> "a", flist, "%s")
>
>
>
> Does anyone have a clue on where the problem comes from?
>
> What else can I test to identify the culprit?
>
> Thank you very much for any suggestions.
>
> Maxime.
>
>
>
> Maxime Colin
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>
>
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