Creating of HDF5 file of SPSS file for and by Python

Question

What is the easiest way to create a HDF5-file of an SPSS-file by Python?

Answer 1

If you haven't already stumbled upon it, check out h5py. Iterating over SPSS's data with SPSS's addon python module, and placing the data in an h5py object should be all you need to do.

Answer 2

The Python code at this link http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577811-python-reader-writer-for-spss-sav-files-linux-mac-/ reads and write sav files. It uses the free i/o modules produced by IBM SPSS.