pydata/pandas — pull request #4709 by prossahl (2013-08-30 15:12:15+00:00)
Title: BUG: (GH4708) A zero length series written to HDF cannot be read back.

This fixes GH4708 by spotting when the sentinel single value has been written. This was not being done for the index which resulted in a values/index length miss-match.