[Numpy-discussion] Home for pyhdf5io?

[David Warde-Farley]

Hi Albert,

So this is a wrapper on top of PyTables to implement load() and  
save()? Neat.

Obviously if you're installing PyTables, you can do a lot better and  
organize your data hierarchically without the messiness of Matlab  
structures, walk the node tree, all kinds of fun stuff, but if  you're  
an expatriate matlab user and just want to save some matrices... this  
is great. Notably, that was one of my gripes about ipython+numpy+scipy 
+matplotlib when I first came from Matlab.

I think you should send a message to the PyTables list, ask Francesc  
if he thinks it has a place in PyTables for it as a 'lite' wrapper or  
something, for people who need to save data but don't need/are  
intimidated by all the features that PyTables provides.

David

On 21-May-09, at 4:04 PM, 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, ie 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 aa 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 appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> /Albert
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