Configuring h5py

Library configuration

A few library options are available to change the behavior of the library. You can get a reference to the global library configuration object via the function h5py.get_config(). This object supports the following attributes:

complex_names

Set to a 2-tuple of strings (real, imag) to control how complex numbers are saved. The default is (‘r’,’i’).

bool_names

Booleans are saved as HDF5 enums. Set this to a 2-tuple of strings (false, true) to control the names used in the enum. The default is (“FALSE”, “TRUE”).

track_order

Whether to track dataset/group/attribute creation order. If container creation order is tracked, its links and attributes are iterated in ascending creation order (consistent with dict in Python 3.7+); otherwise in ascending alphanumeric order. Global configuration value can be overridden for particular container by specifying track_order argument to h5py.File, h5py.Group.create_group(), h5py.Group.create_dataset(). The default is False.