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fix mentioning h5py #2353

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fixes #2286
jonaslandsgesell Oct 30, 2018
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Mention the h5py documentation
KaiSzuttor Oct 30, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -250,6 +250,16 @@ call the H5md objects :meth:`espressomd.io.writer.h5md.H5md.write` method withou
After the last write call, you have to call the ``close()`` method to remove
the backup file and to close the datasets etc.

H5MD files can be read and modified with the python module h5py (for documentation see `h5py <http://docs.h5py.org/en/stable/>`_). For example all positions stored in the file called "h5mdfile.h5" can be read using

.. code:: python

import h5py
h5file = h5py.File("h5mdfile.h5", 'r')
positions = h5file['particles/atoms/position/value']

Further the files can be inspected with the GUI tool hdfview.

.. _Writing MPI-IO binary files:

Writing MPI-IO binary files
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