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Hierarchical Data Format
The
Hierarchical Data Format
(at least HDF5) is useful to store huge amounts of numerical data and easily manipulate it with
NumPy
.
Two versions:
HDF4
HDF5
A HDF5 file is a container that stores
datasets (think tables or
numpy
arrays), and
groups (which store groups and datasets, hence the
hierarchical
data format)
See also
NetCDF
Links
h5py
is a
Python
interface for HDF5.
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