[Numpy-discussion] Home for pyhdf5io?

Dag Sverre Seljebotn dagss at student.matnat.uio.no
Thu May 21 16:09:27 EDT 2009


albert.thuswaldner at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear list,
> I'm writing this because i have developed a small python module that 
> might be of interest to you the readers of this list:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/pyhdf5io/
> 
> It basically implements load/save functions that mimic the behaviour of 
> those found in Matlab, i.e. with them you can store your variables from 
> within the interactive shell (IPython, python) or from within a 
> function, and then load them back in again. One important difference is 
> that the hdf5 format is used to store the variables, which comes with a 
> a number of benefits:
> - a open standard file format which is supported by many applications.
> - completely portable file format across different platforms.
> 
> Read more here: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/whatishdf5.html
> 
> And now to the question:
> 
> I think that this module is to small to be developed and maintained on 
> its on, I think It would be better if it could be part of some larger 
> project. So where would pyhdf5io fit in?
> Any tips and ideas are highly appreciate

I'd expect to find it in

http://h5py.alfven.org/

I think...

-- 
Dag Sverre



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