Package h5py: Information

Source package: h5py

Version: 1.3.1-alt1.svn20100926.2

Build time:  Apr 5, 2011, 09:43 AM

Category: Development/Python

Home page: http://code.google.com/p/h5py/

License: MIT

Summary: Python interface to the Hierarchical Data Format library, version 5

Description: 

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.

From a Python programmer's perspective, HDF5 provides a robust way to
store data, organized by name in a tree-like fashion. You can create
datasets (arrays on disk) hundreds of gigabytes in size, and perform
random-access I/O on desired sections. Datasets are organized in a
filesystem-like hierarchy using containers called "groups", and accessed
using the tradional POSIX /path/to/resource syntax.

H5py provides a simple, robust read/write interface to HDF5 data from
Python. Existing Python and Numpy concepts are used for the interface;
for example, datasets on disk are represented by a proxy class that
supports slicing, and has dtype and shape attributes. HDF5 groups are
presented using a dictionary metaphor, indexed by name.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
python-module-h5py (x86_64, i586)
python-module-h5py-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)
python-module-h5py-doc (noarch)
python-module-h5py-pickles (x86_64, i586)
python-module-h5py-tests (x86_64, i586)

Maintainer: Eugeny A. Rostovtsev