Hi Guix,
this patch adds python-hdf4. I'm not sure if the line “Python-HDF4
is a fork of pyhdf.” in the description is necessary. The original
and “official” pyhdf (http://hdfeos.org/software/pyhdf.php) is
somewhat outdated (e.g. doesn't support python3).
Thomas
From 7bb5a32da7b2b7bd2a31b6cfd4244e55fe0b850a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Danckaert <thomas.dancka...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:17:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-hdf4.
* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-hdf4, python2-hdf4): New variables.
---
gnu/packages/python.scm | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index bfa7eae..1ed3b7d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -715,6 +715,35 @@ certificate returned by the server to which a connection has been established,
and verifies that it matches the intended target hostname.")
(license license:psfl)))
+(define-public python-hdf4
+ (package
+ (name "python-hdf4")
+ (version "0.9")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (pypi-uri name version))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1hjiyrxvxk9817qyqky3nar4y3fs4z8wxz0n884zzb5wi6skrjks"))))
+ (build-system python-build-system)
+ (inputs
+ `(("hdf4" ,hdf4)
+ ("libjpeg" ,libjpeg)
+ ("zlib" ,zlib)
+ ("numpy" ,python-numpy)))
+ (home-page "https://github.com/fhs/python-hdf4")
+ (synopsis "Python interface to the NCSA HDF4 library")
+ (description
+ "Python-HDF4 is a python wrapper around the NCSA HDF version 4
+library, which implements the SD (Scientific Dataset), VS (Vdata) and
+V (Vgroup) API’s. NetCDF files can also be read and modified.
+Python-HDF4 is a fork of pyhdf.")
+ (license license:expat)))
+
+(define-public python2-hdf4
+ (package-with-python2 python-hdf4))
+
(define-public python-h5py
(package
(name "python-h5py")
--
2.7.4