HDF5 Forest (h5forest) is a Text-based User Interface (TUI) for exploring HDF5 files.
h5ls works, and h5glance is a great improvement, so "Why bother?" I hear you ask.
Well, h5forest brings interactivity and new functionality not available in its long-standing brethren. h5forest includes:
- An interactive interface capable of handling large files with deep hierarchies.
- Real-time metadata and attribute displays.
- A modal system for interacting with the file (I use Neovim by the way).
- Lazy loading, making the most of chunked data.
- Peeking inside Datasets.
- Computing statistics on the fly.
- Generation of quick diagnostics.
- Fully asynchronous operation for a blazingly fast (🔥) and responsive feel.
The following features are coming soon:
- A search function.
- Renaming of Datasets and Groups.
h5forest can be installed through pip:
pip install h5forestYou will now have the h5forest command installed. Simply run
h5forest /path/to/hdf5/file.hdf5
on the command line to get started exploring a file.
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