Maximilian Linhoff

@WanXinTao This issue is about adding support for vlen to highfive. So I cannot give you a solution using high five. H5cpp.h is the c++ interface, which might need an...

@WanXinTao If you are on Ubuntu and have `libhdf5-dev` installed, the header is here: `/usr/include/hdf5/serial/H5Cpp.h`. Which is also advertised when using pkg-config: ``` $ pkg-config hdf5 --cflags --libs -I/usr/include/hdf5/serial -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial...

@tdegeus Could you maybe change the tag from "question" to "enhancement" and adjust the title? Maybe to "Support variable length data types"? Or should I open a new issue to...

A first step would be to support simple variable length arrays, this is how you write one using `h5py`: ```python import h5py import numpy as np data = np.array([ np.array(row,...

I am a bit lost where I could start with looking into this. If you'd give me a couple of pointers which parts of the code would need to be...

> The change you propose is significant, both in potential and amount of work :) I suspected as much. Still, I suspect it will be less work for me to...

Hi @motiv-ncb, if you want to just read everything into a `std::vector`, I came up with this: ```cpp #include #include #include #include #include int main () { H5::H5File file("vlen_cpp.hdf5", H5F_ACC_RDONLY);...

`JSON` has the problem of neither allowing special float values (`NaN`, `Inf`, `-Inf`) nor comments. This might be a reason to not use `JSON`.

I found this: https://cython-docs2.readthedocs.io/en/stable/src/tutorial/numpy.html which looked like an old cython documentation, but seems like third party tutorials? Anyways, the point is that cython code fails with errors like "big-endian buffer...

The reason seems to have been that this package currently does not support `@software` entries in bibtex files. Changing to `@misc` works. However, direct support for @software would be great.