ContinuumIO/blaze — pull request #358 by mrocklin (2014-06-26 18:13:36+00:00)
Title: [WIP] - HDF5 variable length strings

We'd like variable length HDF5 string support. Sadly the Python options tend to go through NumPy, which has poor varlen string support. `h5py` has a workaround.

So far this has only tests, one of which is failing and that @mwiebe is working to correct.