Simplify Python interface to HDF5 file by using H5Py
Issue #894
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Use http://www.h5py.org/. No point re-inventing the wheel.
Use http://www.h5py.org/. No point re-inventing the wheel.
NOTE: importing a h5py package that has been pip installed will often segfault due to incompatible HDF5 libs between h5py and dolfin. We should install h5py in the docker container with
if we chose to make h5py the go-to method for more advanced HDF5 wrangling.
I have tried to make a foolproof way of detecting whether h5py is incompatible so that a warning can be printed about this at an appropriate time instead of the interpreter dying when importing h5py, but I have not found a good way to do this. It is not possible to handle compiled module SIGSEGV in Python