science/py-asdf 4.1.0 DragonFly

The Advanced Scientific Data Format (ASDF) is a next-generation interchange format for scientific data. This package contains the Python implementation of the ASDF Standard.

The ASDF format has the following features:

• A hierarchical, human-readable metadata format (implemented using YAML)
• Numerical arrays are stored as binary data blocks which can be memory mapped. Data blocks can optionally be compressed.
• The structure of the data can be automatically validated using schemas (implemented using JSON Schema)
• Native Python data types (numerical types, strings, dicts, lists) are serialized automatically
• ASDF can be extended to serialize custom data types