[Numpy-discussion] ANN: HDF5 for Python 1.0

[Andrew Collette]

If it's a feature people want, I certainly wouldn't mind looking in to
it.  I believe PyTables supports bzip2 as well.  Adding filters to HDF5
takes a bit of work but is well supported by the library.

Andrew

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:53 +0100, Stephen Simmons wrote:

> Do you have any plans to add lzo compression support, in addition to 
> gzip? This is a feature I used a lot in PyTables.
> 
> Andrew Collette wrote:
> > =====================================
> > Announcing HDF5 for Python (h5py) 1.0
> > =====================================
> >
> > What is h5py?
> > -------------
> >
> > HDF5 for Python (h5py) is a general-purpose Python interface to the
> > Hierarchical Data Format library, version 5.  HDF5 is a versatile,
> > mature scientific software library designed for the fast, flexible
> > storage of enormous amounts of data.
> >