On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Nolan Phillips <ncphillips...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the metadata that PyTables inserts into the HDF5
> files.
>
> Is this data stored in the files themselves, but just not user defined?
> The important question is, does this metadata make the HDF5 files
> inaccessible by other means, such as the standard C library or H5Py?
>

Hi Nolan,

The PyTables-specific metadata is for PyTables (and ViTables) consumption
only and does not (or should not) interfere with other methods of HDF5
consumption.  Since PyTables and h5py both link to the hdf5 library, I have
never had any interoperability problems.

Be Well
Anthony


>
> Thanks!
>
> Nolan
>
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