python and HDF

[Sheldon]

Hi,

I am using a HLHDF C wrapper to extract data from HDF (version 5)
files.
I can view the contents with IDL, for example, and read the attributes
in the HDF file. There is one attribute that I extracted and only of
part of the string was returned. In the HDF file, the attribute data is
a name which is called "baseline" but when python reads it, it returns
"baselin" instead.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Sincerely,
Sheldon