Hi, I have been using h5py a lot (both on windows and Mac OSX) and can only recommend it- haven't tried the other options though....
Cheers, Simon On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Derek Homeier < [email protected]> wrote: > On 21.06.2011, at 7:58PM, Neal Becker wrote: > > > I think, in addition, that hdf5 is the only one that easily interoperates > with > > matlab? > > > > speaking of hdf5, I see: > > > > pyhdf5io 0.7 - Python module containing high-level hdf5 load and save > > functions. > > h5py 2.0.0 - Read and write HDF5 files from Python > > > > Any thoughts on the relative merits of these? > > In my experience, HDF5 access usually approaches disk access speed, and > random access to sub-datasets should be significantly faster than reading in > the entire file, though I have not been able to test this. > I have not heard about pyhdf5io (how does it work together with numpy?) - > as alternative to h5py I'd rather recommend pytables, though I prefer the > former for its cleaner/simpler interface (but that probably depends on your > programming habits). > > HTH, > Derek > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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