Version 1.0 milestones

[jjhelmus]

This issue will be used to track work towards the 1.0 milestone where pyfive can read all HDF5 files which are supported by hdf5 using a similar API. This issue will be updates as new issues are opened.

HDF5 features not supported by pyfive

• compression, implemented in Add support for gzip compression and shuffle filter #9
• shuffling, implemented in Add support for gzip compression and shuffle filter #9
• dimension scale, Dimension scales #14
• complex attributes, implemented in Support for complex attribute datatypes #26
• fletcher32 checksum, implemented in Support for reading and verifting fletcher32 checksums #28
• unlimited dimensions, tests added in TST: unit tests for resizable datasets #33
• multiple unlimited dimensions, tests added in TST: unit tests for resizable datasets #33
• version 1.10 files, implemented in Support v3 superblocks, minor maintenance #39
• scale offset filter
• various datatypes

h5py API features not implemented in pyfive

• compression Dataset attribute, implemented in Add support for gzip compression and shuffle filter #9
• compression_opts Dataset attribute, implemented in Add support for gzip compression and shuffle filter #9
• shuffle Dataset attribute, implemented in Add support for gzip compression and shuffle filter #9
• chunks Dataset attribute, implemented in Add chunks attribute to pyfive.Dataset class #11
• fletcher32 Dataset attribute, implemented in Support for reading and verifting fletcher32 checksums #28
• fillvalue Dataset attribute, implemented in support for reading dataset fillvalues #29
• visit methods, implemented in Add visit and visititems methods to Group class #31
• visititems methods, implemented in Add visit and visititems methods to Group class #31
• astype Dataset method, implemented in ENH: Dataset.astype method #36
• read_direct Dataset method, implemented in ENH: Dataset.read_direct method #37
• scaleoffset Dataset attribute.