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osobhandClaude Opus 5.5 f0ecae38b6 perf(py): datasets and groups keep their address; groups their links

Every ds[...] and g[k] resolved the path from the root again, two or
three times per open, and resolving a name in a large group scans its
links: visiting a group was O(n^2). 4000 scalar datasets in one group
took 39 s (v1 group) and 131 s (dense) to list, read and re-read; now
0.3 s each. A Dataset keeps its object address, a Group (and the file's
root) its address and, after the first lookup, its link table.

New facade API File::dataset_at(address), tested in integration_tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

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perf(py): datasets and groups keep their address; groups their links

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perf(py): datasets and groups keep their address; groups their links

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build.rs

Merge pull request 'docs(clawhdf5): document DType variants, fix unresolved doc links' (#17 ) from sdlc-docs/clawhdf5-types-20260514-165210 into main

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Cargo.toml

fix(py): one name, clawhdf5, for the Python distribution and module

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pyproject.toml

fix(py): one name, clawhdf5, for the Python distribution and module

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README.md

docs: the Python package — install with maturin, h5py-style reading

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README.md

clawhdf5-py

Python bindings for clawhdf5 — a pure-Rust HDF5 library. The package is clawhdf5 (import clawhdf5); it needs numpy and no libhdf5.

Install

Not on PyPI yet. Build it into a virtualenv with maturin:

pip install maturin numpy
cd crates/clawhdf5-py
maturin develop --release
python -c "import clawhdf5; print(clawhdf5.__version__)"

Reading

The read API follows h5py:

import numpy as np
import clawhdf5

with clawhdf5.File("data.h5", "r") as f:
    f.keys(), f["group"].items(), "group/data" in f
    ds = f["group/data"]           # or f["/group/data"], f["group"]["data"]
    ds.shape, ds.dtype, ds.attrs["units"]
    ds[10:20, ::2]                 # only the selected elements are read
    ds[-1], ds[..., 0], ds[[1, 4, 7]]
    np.asarray(ds)
    f["table"]["id"]               # a compound field

Dataset.dtype is the numpy dtype h5py reports: integers and IEEE floats of every width in either byte order, bool, enums (with dtype.metadata['enum']), complex, S<n> fixed strings, object for variable-length strings (bytes values) and sequences (array values), V<n> opaque, array types, and compounds as structured dtypes. Other types raise TypeError.
Keys are h5py's: integers, slices with a positive step, ..., one increasing list of integers, compound field names. Each maps onto a hyperslab selection. None, negative steps and boolean masks are refused with h5py's errors.
The bytes the library reads become the numpy array's buffer without a copy, and the read runs with the GIL released, so threads read in parallel.
Attributes return what h5py returns; clawhdf5.Empty stands for a null dataspace (h5py's Empty).

Writing

clawhdf5.File(path, "w") with create_dataset(name, data=array, chunks=..., compression="gzip"), create_group and attrs[...] = ... writes float64, float32, int64, int32 and uint8 arrays; the file is written on close().

Tests

pip install pytest h5py
pytest crates/clawhdf5-py/tests

tests/test_read_vs_h5py.py compares every read with h5py on a file h5py writes. scripts/ci-test.sh builds the wheel and runs these in CI.

License

MIT