If anyone would be willing to test this out, it may be a worthwhile upgrade. My reading of the release notes is that there are no backwards-incompatible changes. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Collette Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:20 AM Subject: ANN: HDF5 for Python (h5py) 2.1.0-final To: SciPy Users List , numpy-discussion@scipy.org, hdf-forum@hdfgroup.org, h5py@googlegroups.com Announcing HDF5 for Python (h5py) 2.1.0 ======================================= We are proud to announce the availability of HDF5 for Python (h5py) 2.1.0! This release has been a long time coming. Thanks to everyone who contributed code and filed bug reports! What's new in h5py 2.1 ----------------------- * The HDF5 Dimension Scales API is now available, along with high-level integration with Dataset objects. Thanks to D. Dale for implementing this. * Unicode scalar strings can now be stored in attributes. * Dataset objects now expose a .size property giving the total number of elements. * Many performance improvements and bug fixes About the project ----------------------- HDF5 for Python (h5py) is a general-purpose Python interface to the Hierarchical Data Format library, version 5. HDF5 is a mature scientific software library originally developed at NCSA, designed for the fast, flexible storage of enormous amounts of data.

From a Python programmer's perspective, HDF5 provides a robust way to store data, organized by name in a tree-like fashion. You can create datasets (arrays on disk) hundreds of gigabytes in size, and perform random-access I/O on desired sections. Datasets are organized in a filesystem-like hierarchy using containers called "groups", and accessed using the traditional POSIX /path/to/resource syntax.

Downloads, FAQ and bug tracker are available at Google Code: * Google code site: http://h5py.googlecode.com Documentation is available at Alfven.org: * http://h5py.alfven.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "h5py" group. To post to this group, send email to h5py@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to h5py+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/h5py?hl=en.