h5forest 0.9.0b0

A tool to view HDF5 file structures in the terminal.

h5forest

HDF5 Forest (h5forest) is a Text-based User Interface (TUI) for exploring HDF5 files.

h5ls works, and h5glance is a great improvement, so "Why bother?" I hear you ask.

Well, h5forest brings interactivity and new functionality not available in its long-standing brethren. h5forest includes:

• An interactive interface capable of handling large files with deep hierarchies.
• Fully asynchronous operation for a blazingly fast (🔥) and responsive feel.
• A real-time metadata and attribute display.
• Memory efficiency with lazy loading.
• Peeking inside Datasets.
• On-the-fly statistics.
• Fuzzy search with real-time filtering to quickly find datasets and groups.
• A fully terminal-based interface with vim motions (I use Neovim by the way...).

For more details read the documentation for installation, usage guides, and examples.

Getting started

h5forest can be installed through pip:

pip install h5forest

You will now have the h5forest command installed. Simply run

h5forest /path/to/hdf5/file.hdf5

on the command line to get started exploring a file.

Testimonials

"This is the most compelling and useful procrastination I've ever seen" - Frustrated collaborator waiting for actual work to be done.

"Why has no one done this before? Let’s nominate him for a peerage." - Professor incapable of peerage nomination.

"Nice" - Previous supervisor.