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Overview

python-hdf4 is a fork of pyhdf with some improvements:

  • Removes use of deprecated numpy API
  • Adds support for Python 3, while keeping compatibility with Python 2.
  • Sphinx documentation
  • Planned: unit tests

python-hdf4 is a python wrapper around the NCSA HDF version 4 library. The SD (Scientific Dataset), VS (Vdata) and V (Vgroup) API's are currently implemented. netCDF files can also be read and modified.

Installation

To install, see file INSTALL.rst.

Documentation

For documentation, see http://fhs.github.io/python-hdf4/

Additional documentation on the HDF4 format can be found in the User Guide: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/training/HDFtraining/UsersGuide/

Examples

Example python programs using the pyhdf package can be found inside the examples/ subdirectory.