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Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities
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Pierre de Buyl |
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Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities |
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Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:37:26 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:12:38AM +0200, Felix Höfling wrote:
> Am 01.08.2013, 09:56 Uhr, schrieb Felix Höfling <address@hidden>:
> >Am 31.07.2013, 22:40 Uhr, schrieb Peter Colberg
> ><address@hidden>:
> >
> >>I have discovered the perfect implementation of units in H5MD :-).
> >>
>
> h5py has also a low-level API, of course. But I think it is not
> interchangeable with the high-level one and one would have to stick
> to it everywhere. I was not even able to open a file with
> h5py.h5f.open() ...
>
> My conclusion so far is that custom datatypes are something for
> experienced users, but are not suited to become part of the H5MD
> specification.
>
> Felix
>
Peter, your proposition is indeed technically excellent. I have also toyed with
h5py and if analysis programs have a hard time finding out units in a file it
might be more troublesome than the current version.
Pierre
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Felix Höfling, 2013/08/01
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Felix Höfling, 2013/08/01
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities,
Pierre de Buyl <=
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Peter Colberg, 2013/08/01
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Pierre de Buyl, 2013/08/01
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Felix Höfling, 2013/08/01
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Peter Colberg, 2013/08/01
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Felix Höfling, 2013/08/02
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Pierre de Buyl, 2013/08/02
- Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Peter Colberg, 2013/08/01
Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities, Peter Colberg, 2013/08/01