HelioPy comes with a sample ‘heliopyrc’ file. In order to customise the file
make a copy of it at ~/.heliopy/heliopyrc and edit that copy.
The default contents of the file are:
; Example heliopy configuration file. To make the configuration active, either
; edit this copy or move a copy to ~/.heliopy/heliopyrc
; The config parser will look in ~/.heliopy first.
[DEFAULT]
; The working directory is the parent directory in which all downloaded
; data will be stored.
download_dir = ~/heliopy/data
; Choose whether to convert all downloaded data to a hdf store, enabling much
; faster file reading after the initial load, but requiring the additional
; h5py and py-tables dependencies
use_hdf = False
; Cluster user cookie
cluster_cookie = none
Alternatively the copy included with HelioPy can be directly edited. To get the location of the configuration file in a python session run
from heliopy.util import config
print(config.get_config_file())
This will print the location of the configuration file that HelioPy is reading in.