.. index:: !nexusformat; code examples

.. _Example-nexusformat:

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HDF5 in Python with ``nexusformat``
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``nexusformat`` provides a higher level API on top of h5py (see chapter :ref:`Example-H5py`).
While h5py provides a basic API to read and write HDF5 files, ``nexusformat`` enriches this
API with NeXus specific utilities.

Please refer to the ``NeXpy`` documentation: https://nexpy.github.io/nexpy/.

Code examples
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* `Write examples for different NeXus classes <https://github.com/nexusformat/exampledata/blob/-/autogenerated_examples/nxdl/python_scripts/nexusformat/README.md>`_