NoneH 5py is a NumPy-compatible Python module for handling The Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5) files.

H 5py is a NumPy-compatible Python module for handling The Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5) files.

Main features

  • Free (BSD licensed)
  • limited dependencies (Python, NumPy, HDF5 libs.)
  • includes both a low level c-like HDF5 interface and a high level Python/NumPy style interface
  • directly interact with datasets using NumPy metaphors, such as slicing
  • datatypes specified using standard NumPy dtype objects

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