A HDF5-based python pickle replacement for dumping and loading python variables to file.
copied from cf-staging / hicklehickle is a neat, quick way of dumping python variables to HDF5 files that can be read in most programming languages. Hickle is fast, and allows for transparent compression of your data (LZF / GZIP). Hickle is built upon h5py, and can be used as a drop-in replacement for pickle/cPickle.