pydata/pandas — pull request #6166 by wabu (2014-01-29 08:45:05+00:00)
Title: long str unconvert fix 

When storing long strings in hdf5, they get truncated at 64bytes when converted back to strings. The fix computes the itemsize of the strings and uses it before converting to strings. It would be possible to use the attribute information of the table, but that would require changes in the calling code.

Test that failed without the patch is included.