Working with HDF5 ArraysΒΆ

HDF5 supports the storage of up to 32-dimensional arrays of an arbitrary pre-defined or user-defined HDF5 element datatype. This level of generality goes far beyond of what can be rendered on an Excel worksheet and what might be of interest to most Excel users. PyHexad supports standard tasks on one- and two-dimensional HDF5 datasets of pre-defined scalar element types (integers, floating-point numbers, strings). Standard array tasks include the reading of arrays from an HDF5 file, the creation of new arrays in an HDF5 file, and the writing of cell ranges to HDF5 arrays. This is the purpose of the three PyHexad functions in the HDF5 array category: h5readArray, h5newArray, and h5writeArray. All three functions come with several options, for example, to read or write only a sub-array, or to enable compression of the HDF5 arrays in the file.