What is the difference between the eccodes and python-eccodes conda-forge packages ? about eccodes-python HOT 3 OPEN

ecCodes is the main engine (library + command line tools) and eccodes-python is the Python3 bindings (which uses the library)

from eccodes-python.

Thanks!

So, the bindings we get with
import eccodes
actually comes from the python-eccodes package?

About the python documentation, is the ecCodes Namespace Reference page the right/best page to check?

from eccodes-python.

I am also confused about the names and different versions that are installed.

In an environment where eccodes is installed from conda forge...

> conda list eccodes
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
eccodes                   2.23.0               h11d1a29_3    conda-forge
python-eccodes            2021.03.0        py38h6c62de6_1    conda-forge

In a separate conda environment, I installed just pdbufr from pip (did not install eccodes from conda-forge, yet). Is this different than python-eccodes?

> conda list eccodes
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
eccodes                   1.3.3                    pypi_0    pypi

from eccodes-python.