[Nexus] Nexpy

[Carlos Pascual]

Hi,

> This is one reason why I would recommend using the nexusformat package to
> read and write NeXus files

Isn't this kind of contradictory with the official recommendation from the 
manual (section 4.1)? :

>  It is expected that most application developers will use 
>  standard HDF5 tools to read and write NeXus.

... which, for the case of python, I would say it means h5py. I understand 
that nexusformat could be considered just a convenience wrap of h5py, but the 
same could be said about the old nxs module (which at the end used the 
standard  libhdf5).

My concern is that if we recommend one specific module for python access to 
nexus, and specially if such module starts doing non-trivial tasks such as in 
[1],  we may end up in a situation where we introduce de-facto 
incompatibilities between writers and readers (see, e.g. my comment in [1]).

And, on the other hand, if the NIAC does bless nexusformat as the preferred 
access method for python, I think it should be stated unambiguously in the 
manual.

Cheers,

[1] https://github.com/nexpy/nexusformat/issues/32

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