[SciPy-user] Real-time plotting and data storage format questions

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:06:35AM -0700, Charles Doutriaux wrote:
> For the data format I strongly recommend NetCDF and especially NetCDF4 
> (allows for compression)

Actually, why not hdf5, which seems to be used by NetCDF4, but is also 
largely used across many scientific comunities, and very well supported
under python (pytables)?

My 2 cents,

Gaël