Hi Neil, The h5py project uses the backing buffer in several conversion paths:
https://github.com/h5py/h5py/blob/master/h5py/_conv.pyx#L411 Unfortunately this was written years ago and I'm not 100% sure why this is needed. As I recall the converter crashes without it. Andrew _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
