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Detecting the version of the HDF5 library
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hdf5version.py
import ctypes
lib=ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("C:\\Path\\to\\hdf5.dll")
#lib=ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("/usr/lib/libhdf5.so")
length = 1
majnum = ctypes.cast(ctypes.create_string_buffer(length), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_uint))
minnum = ctypes.cast(ctypes.create_string_buffer(length), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_uint))
relnum = ctypes.cast(ctypes.create_string_buffer(length), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_uint))
lib.H5get_libversion.argtypes = [ ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_uint), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_uint), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_uint)]
lib.H5get_libversion(majnum, minnum, relnum)
print "HDF5 library version: "+str(majnum.contents.value)+"."+str(minnum.contents.value)+"."+str(relnum.contents.value)
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