astropy/astropy — pull request #461 by astrofrog (2012-11-05 21:25:52+00:00)
Title: Support for HDF5 table I/O

This PR adds support to the Table class for reading/writing tables from HDF5 files.

I'm wondering whether maybe ``group`` and ``name`` can be merged into a single ``path`` argument. Any opinions?

cc @wkerzendorf @eteq since I think you were interested in this functionality