functions for creating hdfits style hdf files from data

[jslavin]

Hi,

I was excited to find your paper and this package since I've been working on creating an hdf5 file to contain some data that was scattered among various ascii files as inputs for some modeling. I generally like the approach. One lack in the package so far is that it is completely oriented towards conversion from fits to hdf5 and vice versa. So it does not really help with my issue of structuring my data into an hdf5 file unless I were to first convert it into fits data tables and hdus - which seems sort of pointless.
So the enhancement that I'd like to see would be easy methods to directly create hdfits style hdf5 files starting from data (presumably numpy arrays and maybe dictionaries for the headers). Of course I can just use h5py to do this - and that's what I am doing - but the hdfits format presents a nice conceptual structure. As you say in the paper, there are a variety of ways to structure data within hdf5 files, but it's nice to have a consistent format, which is what hdfits can provide.

Regards,
Jon

[telegraphic]

Hi Jon, currently going through open issues after integrating some updates; looks like I missed this one last year, my apologies. I do think it's a good idea, so am leaving open and tagging as enhancement.