pyfive: A pure-Python HDF5 reader

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Bryan N. Lawrence (0000-0001-9262-7860), Ezequiel Cimadevilla (0000-0002-8437-2068), Wout De Nolf (0000-0003-2258-9402), David Hassell (0000-0002-5312-4950), Jonathan Helmus, Benjamin Hodel, Brian Maranville (0000-0002-6105-8789), Kai Mühlbauer (0000-0001-6599-1034), Valeriu Predoi (0000-0002-9729-6578)

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Lawrence et al., (2026). pyfive: A pure-Python HDF5 reader. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(118), 9688, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09688

@article{Lawrence2026, doi = {10.21105/joss.09688}, url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09688}, year = {2026}, publisher = {The Open Journal}, volume = {11}, number = {118}, pages = {9688}, author = {Lawrence, Bryan N. and Cimadevilla, Ezequiel and De Nolf, Wout and Hassell, David and Helmus, Jonathan and Hodel, Benjamin and Maranville, Brian and Mühlbauer, Kai and Predoi, Valeriu}, title = {pyfive: A pure-Python HDF5 reader}, journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} }
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