Mimicking Fortran string properties using Python/h5py

[daniel.kahn]

I’ve found a solution which looks like it works from a previous Forum post:

NULLPAD & NULLTERM strings

Hello all, This is a re-ask of a question with the same title from couple of years ago which was not answered. I need to write fixed length strings with a padding of H5T_STR_NULLTERM. I have tried using both the high and low level APIs, but unable to get the desired output. I suspect I’m missing something obvious, it’s just not obvious to me . What I want to get: HDF5 "desired.hdf" { GROUP "/" { GROUP "grp1" { ATTRIBUTE "A1" { DATATYPE H5T_STRING { …