h52edf/h5_to_edf is a tool developed at ESRF to convert a HDF5 file to EDF files.

Installation

pip install h5_to_edf

Usage

usage: h52edf [-h] [-o EDF_DIRECTORY] [--report] [--debug] [--dry-run] [-V]
              [--no-dark] [--no-flat] [--yml] [--no-xml] [--current CURRENT]
              h5_names

positional arguments:
  h5_names

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -o EDF_DIRECTORY   Output directory for EDF files
  --report           Display report without data processing
  --debug            Display debug information
  --dry-run          Process the data without writing it
  -V, --version      show program's version number and exit
  --no-dark          If the h5 does not contains darks, will skip dark creation
  --no-flat          If the h5 does not contains flats, will skip flat creation
  --yml              Create a .yml file containing all the metadata from the h5 file
  --no-xml           Do not generate a .xml file containing few metadata from the h5 file
  --current CURRENT  Use a current text file containing the machine current

How to use

The converter needs the name of the hdf5 file to be converted, and the output directory where the EDF files will be created.

h52edf "path/file_001.h5" -o output_directory

You can also convert multiple hdf5 files at once with the following command:

h52edf "path/file_0*.h5" -o output_directory

Project release

# ~/.pypirc
[h5-to-edf]
repository = https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
username = __token__
password = pypi-...

pip wheel . --wheel-dir=dist
twine upload dist/h5_to_edf-*.whl -r h5-to-edf