Bug#1016201: ITP: hickle -- HDF5 based version of pickle

[Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : hickle
  Version         : 4.0.4
  Upstream Author : Danny Price, Ellert van der Velden and contributors
* URL             : https://github.com/telegraphic/hickle
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : HDF5 based version of pickle

  An HDF5 based clone of 'pickle', with a twist: instead of serializing to a
  pickle file, Hickle dumps to an HDF5 file (Hierarchical Data Format). It is
  designed to be a "drop-in" replacement for pickle (for common data objects),
  but is really an amalgam of 'h5py' and 'pickle' with extended functionality.
  .
  That is: 'hickle' is a neat little way of dumping python variables to HDF5
  files that can be read in most programming languages, not just Python. Hickle
  is fast, and allows for transparent compression of your data (LZF / GZIP).
 
I plan to maintain this package as part of the Python modules team.