HDF5 for Python -- The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5 binary data format.
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h5py
is a thin, pythonic wrapper around HDF5 <https://portal.hdfgroup.org/hdf5/develop/index.html>
_,
which runs on Python 3 (3.9+).
Pre-built h5py
can either be installed via your Python Distribution (e.g.
Continuum Anaconda
, Enthought Canopy
) or from PyPI
_ via pip
.
h5py
is also distributed in many Linux Distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora),
and in the macOS package managers Homebrew <https://brew.sh/>
,
Macports <https://www.macports.org/>
, or Fink <http://finkproject.org/>
.
More detailed installation instructions, including how to install h5py
with
MPI support, can be found at: https://docs.h5py.org/en/latest/build.html.
Open a bug at https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues. For general questions, ask on the HDF forum (https://forum.hdfgroup.org/c/hdf5/h5py).
.. _Continuum Anaconda
: http://continuum.io/downloads
.. _Enthought Canopy
: https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/
.. _PyPI
: https://pypi.org/project/h5py/
.. _pip
: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/