Example on exporting hdf5 file to a python dictionary

create_stub_hdf5.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
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import h5py
import sys
import numpy as np
import dpath
import json

res = dict()

def print_item(name, value):
    assert name not in ['value', 'attrs']

    # print(name)
    if isinstance(value, h5py._hl.dataset.Dataset):
        if value.size > 300:
            dpath.util.new(res, name + '/value', 'np.rand.random({}, dtype=np.{})'.format(value.shape, value.dtype))
        else:
            ndvalue = np.array(value)
            try:
                ndvalue = ndvalue.item()
            except ValueError:
                pass
            dpath.util.new(res, name + '/value', ndvalue)
    elif isinstance(value, h5py._hl.group.Group):
        pass
    else:
        if value:
            dpath.util.new(res, name + '/value', value)
    if value.attrs:
        dpath.util.new(res, name + '/attrs', dict(value.attrs))

h5f = h5py.File(sys.argv[1], 'r')
h5f.visititems(print_item)
res['attrs'] = dict(h5f.attrs)
from pprint import pprint
pprint(res)