Describe the Enhancement

In the issue "Suggested Improvements to Python Embedding across MET #2414" the following is suggested:

If --enable_python is used when building, have make_test check if the version of python specified can successfully load all the required packages from a list of required packages that is maintained somewhere.

In addition, it would be good to run a couple of test case to test the functionality of Python embedding, for example, the code that is current failing:

plot_data_plane -v 10 PYTHON_NUMPY fcst.ps 'name="/d1/projects/MET/MET_releases/testing/intel/share/met/python/examples/read_ascii_numpy.py /d1/projects/METplus/METplus_Data/met_test/data/python/fcst.txt FCST";'

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1 to 3 days of work

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