On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 00:11, Christopher Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > David Warde-Farley wrote: >> As Robert's design document for the NPY format says, one option would >> be to implement a minimal subset of the HDF5 protocol *from scratch* > > That would be really cool -- I wonder how hard it would be to implement > just the current NPY features? Judging from this: > > http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/H5.format.html > > It's far from trivial!
Yes. That's why I wrote the NPY format instead. I *did* do some due diligence before I designed a new binary format. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
