Re: [h5md-user] Unit attribute versus non-dimensionless quantities

[Pierre de Buyl]

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