Author: Andre Gosselin
Maurice-Lamontagne Institute
Andre.Gosselin@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Maintainer: Enthought, Inc.
Austin, TX
enthought-dev@mail.enthought.com
Version: 0.8-1
Date: August 4 2008
Introduction
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HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) (also HDF4) is a widely-used data storage format. Version 1-4 were backwards compatible, but version 5 (HDF5) broke backwards compatibility. Hence, software for dealing with HDF5 files cannot be used to process the large existing quantity of data stored in the HDF4 format. This module provides functionality to deal with a wide range of HDF4 files. In particular, it supports Scientific Datasets (SD), Vdata tables (VS), Vgroups (V), and parsing of ODL (Object Description Language), a common parameter specification format in HDF files. The functionality of pyhdf is contained in several modules, each of which has its own documentation:

pyhdf.HDF (general HDF files)

pyhdf.SD (Scientific Dataset files)

pyhdf.VS (Vdata table)

pyhdf.V (Vgroups)

pyhdf.odl_parser