The h5features python package provides easy to use and efficient storage of large features data on the HDF5 binary file format.

• dependancies

  The package depends on numpy, scipy and h5py. They can be automatically installed by the setup script but it takes a long time (full compilation). You may want to install the dependancies through your system package manager.

  On Debian/Ubuntu:

  sudo apt-get install python3-numpy python3-scipy python3-h5py

  Using Python anaconda:

  conda install numpy scipy h5py

• h5features

  Install it from the sources with:

  python setup.py build && python setup.py install

  Or you can install it with pip:

  pip install h5features

• See the complete documentation online

• Or build it with:

  pip install Sphinx
  cd docs && make html

  The home page of the compiled documentation is docs/_build/html/index.html.

The package comes with a unit-tests suit. To run it, first install pytest on your Python environment:

pip install pytest

Then run the tests with:

pytest -v ./test