On 6 aug 2009, at 11:52, Thomas Becker wrote: > I was downloading NOAA satellite data from NOAA-15 AMSU-A. > Data are from February 2000, coming as tar.gz archives. Data files > have the extension *.eos and it is supposed to be HDF-EOS format. > > Hence I was thinking... use pytables and everything is good but > pytables version 2.0.4 is telling me that the file I want to open > does exist but it is not a HDF5 file. Am I wrong and pytables can > not deal with this flavour of HDF or can you help me to access the > data?
The HDF-EOS flavor they use is most likely HDF-EOS 2.x, which is based on HDF-4, not HDF-5. Pytables will not be helpful here. There are various packages for python that will read HDF-4 files [1], pyhdf seems to be the ticket. Best, Maarten [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=hdf&submit=search ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
