[Numpy-discussion] pyhdf / was: Request for porting pycdf to NumPy

[Travis Oliphant]

Christian Marquardt wrote:

>As we are at it,
>
>Andre Gosselin (the guy who wrote pycdf) also wrote an interface to HDF4
>(not 5) named pyhdf. I'm using that with numpy as well (patch attached),
>but I haven't tested it much - little more than just running the examples,
>really (which appear to be ok). Maybe it's useful...
>
>In pyhdf, the author didn't support different array interfaces; so the
>attached patch just modifes the existing source code and moves it over
>to numpy. I've also attached a "install script" which makes use of the
>particular lacotion of the HDF4 libraries (in $PREFIX/lib) and header
>files (in $PREFIX/include/hdf), so it it almost certainly needs to be
>adapted to the location of the actual HDF libraries and headers.
>
>Regards,
>  
>

Great job.   Thanks so much.  Would you mind adding these patches to the 
scipy web page.

Or, perhaps we should place them in the numpy svn directory somewhere.

-Travis