This is a fork of the PCIC's version of the pydap.handlers.hdf5 package. This was essentially just a quick-and-dirty hack to get things up and running.
Why? PCIC's performance testing has indicated that accessing netCDF files with the netCDF4 package is generally in the range of 10x faster than the exact same access patterns using h5py.
The code for this project isn't great, and it is not compatible with the official PyDAP release. Please do not try to use them together. By 2020 and the deprecation of Python 2, we intend to have upstreamed (if necessary) any and all of the functionality contained herein.