README_pyhdf

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Author:         Andre Gosselin
                Maurice Lamontagne Institute
                Fisheries and Oceans Department
                Government of Canada
                Mont-Joli, Canada
                Andre.Gosselin@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Maintainer:     Enthought, Inc.
                Austin, TX
                enthought-dev@mail.enthought.com



Latest version: 0.8-3
Date:  October 2 2008

pyhdf is a python wrapper around the NCSA HDF version 4 library.
The SD (Scientific Dataset), VS (Vdata) and V (Vgroup) API's 
are currently implemented. netCDF files can also be 
read and modified.

Functionality of version 0.8 is same as 0.7-3, but it uses 
NumPy package rather than Numeric.


INSTALLATION:

  To install, see file INSTALL.

DOCUMENTATION:

  For documentation, see the doc/ subdirectory:
    -pyhdf.HDF.txt  text format
    -pyhdf.HDF.html html format
    -pyhdf.SD.txt   text format
    -pyhdf.SD.html  html format
    -pyhdf.VS.txt   text format
    -pyhdf.VS.html  html format
    -pyhdf.V.txt    text format
    -pyhdf.V.html   html format

  Additional documentation on the HDF4 format can be
  found in the User Guide:
    http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/training/HDFtraining/UsersGuide/

EXAMPLES:

  Example python programs using the pyhdf package
  can be found inside the examples/ subdirectory.

FINAL NOTES:

  Please report all bugs and problems to the maintainer at the
  address given above. Author can also be contacted.