Python & HDF5 – A Vision
Anthony Scopatz, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina, HDF guest blogger "Python is great and its ecosystem for scientific computing is world class. HDF5 is amazing and is rightly the gold standard for persistence for scientific data. Many people use HDF5 from Python, and this number is only growing due to pandas’ HDFStore. However, using HDF5 from Python has at least one more knot than it needs to. Let’s change that." Almost immediately when going to use HDF5 from Python you are faced with a choice between two fantastic packages with overlapping capabilities: h5py and PyTables. h5py wraps the HDF5 API more closely using autogenerated Cython. PyTables, while also wrapping HDF5, focuses more on a Table data structure and adds...
The 2015 HDF workshop held during the ESIP Summer Meeting was a great success thanks to more than 40 participants throughout the four sessions. The workshop was an excellent opportunity for us to interact with HDF community members to better understand their needs and introduce them to new technologies. You can view the slide presentations from the workshop