spacepy.datamodel.toHDF5

spacepy.datamodel.toHDF5(fname, SDobject, **kwargs)

Create an HDF5 file from a SpacePy datamodel representation

Parameters:

fnamestr

Filename to write to

SDobjectspacepy.datamodel.SpaceData

SpaceData with associated attributes and variables in dmarrays

Returns:

None

Other Parameters:

overwritebool (optional)

allow overwrite of an existing target file (default True)

modestr (optional)

HDF5 file open mode (a, w, r) (default ‘a’)

compressionstr (optional)

compress all non-scalar variables using this method (default None) (gzip, shuffle, fletcher32, szip, lzf)

Changed in version 0.4.0: No longer compresses scalars (which usually fails).

compression_optsstr (optional)

options to the compression, see h5py documentation for more details

Examples

>>> import spacepy.datamodel as dm
>>> a = dm.SpaceData()
>>> a['data'] = dm.dmarray(range(100000), dtype=float)
>>> dm.toHDF5('test_gzip.h5', a, overwrite=True, compression='gzip')
>>> dm.toHDF5('test.h5', a, overwrite=True)
>>> # test_gzip.h5 was 118k, test.h5 was 785k