Python and HDF-EOS

[moroney]

I need the ability write HDF-EOS files from a Python code and am wondering
what the best way to go about this is. Does anybody know of any work that
has been done in creating a Python interface to HDF-EOS?

I 'm thinking of writing my own wrappers around the C HDF-EOS routines
using Swig or something similar, but I'd be happy to hear if somebody has
already done this work. What would be the recommended way of accessing
the HDF-EOS library from Python?

Thanks,

Catherine

[kyang]

Hi Catherine,

As far as I know, there are no HDF-EOS5 Python Interfaces. There are a h5py python package for pure HDF5. If you want to add python interfaces for HDF-EOS5, using a swig may be a good approach. We did some investigation to use swig to generate HDF5 python interface more than 1 year ago and found the some HDF5 macros are too complicated for SWIG to handle. Things like:

#define H5F_ACC_RDWR \
(H5CHECK 0x0001u)
/* H5CHECK will be replaced by H5check(), */

But I think HDF-EOS5 is much easier than HDF5 so it should be straightforward for SWIG.



Kent