HDF5: why h5py?

[Gaël]

Hi there.

I am just curious: why did you choose "raw" h5py instead of pyTables?

Thanks

[Francisco de la Peña]

Hi Gaël,

I simply wanted to keep things as simple as possible. Do you think that there is any advantage in using pytables instead in Hyperspy?

Best,

Francisco

2012/9/4 Gaël <gael....@cnrs-imn.fr>

[Gaël]

I don't know. I also need to store/analyse data (I wanna give python-pandas a try).

HDF5 seemed to be THE way to do it. 

PyTables seems more performance oriented while h5py seems to be a much more simpler wrapper to the raw HDF5 C library:

http://www.pytables.org/moin/FAQ#HowdoesPyTablescomparewiththeh5pyproject.3F

So I was just wondering whether you have compared the two of them. Seems not, so I'll give pytables a try :)