hdf5storage

This Python package provides high level utilities to read/write a variety of Python types to/from HDF5 (Heirarchal Data Format) formatted files. This package also provides support for MATLAB MAT v7.3 formatted files, which are just HDF5 files with a different extension and some extra meta-data. All of this is done without pickling data. Pickling is bad for security because it allows arbitrary code to be executed in the interpreter. One wants to be able to read possibly HDF5 and MAT files from untrusted sources, so pickling is avoided in this package.

More Information

For more information visit the hdf5storage website.

Available Versions

These versions of hdf5storage are available on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR and BEAR Cloud VMs). These will be retained in accordance with our Applications Support and Retention Policy.