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Extract the data from .zidv bundles into Python xarray

def load_from_zidv(url=None,outdir=None):

    assert url.startswith('http:'),'only urls supported at this time'
    remote_file=request.urlopen(url)
    alldata=[]
    with ZipFile(BytesIO(remote_file.read())) as zip_file:
      for contained_file in zip_file.namelist():
        if str(contained_file).startswith('data_'):
            data=xr.open_dataset(zip_file.extract(contained_file,outdir))
            alldata.append(data)

    return xr.merge(alldata)