examples/run_ltool.py — Running the standalone CLI from Python

Overview

This example shows how to call the standalone CLI entry point (ltool.__ltool_standalone__.main) from Python by passing an argv list (the same arguments you’d pass on the command line).

This is useful if you want to:

• integrate ltool into a larger pipeline/script,
• run it programmatically while still using CLI parsing & file handling.

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Example

from ltool.__ltool_standalone__ import main as ltool

argv = [
    "--input_path", "/absolute/path/to/SCC/",
    "--include-glob", "*_003_*_elda_*",
    "--method", "optimized_prm",
    "--save_plots",
    "--save_netcdf",
]

geom, obj = ltool(argv)

Return values

• geom: geometrical output dataset(s) returned by export_to_netcdf
• a single element if exactly one file was processed

• a list if multiple files were processed

• obj: the get_layers object(s) (same single vs list logic)