Created attachment 747028 [details]
fixed source tar file

Description of problem:

h5py cannot be imported in Python3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

python3-h5py.x86_64                                            2.1.0-1.fc18
python3.x86_64                                              3.3.0-1.fc18

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. python3
2. import h5py
  
Actual results:

~>python3
Python 3.3.0 (default, Sep 29 2012, 22:07:38) 
[GCC 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import h5py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/h5py/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from h5py import h5a, h5d, h5ds, h5f, h5fd, h5g, h5r, h5s, h5t, h5p, h5z
ImportError: cannot import name h5a
>>> 

Expected results:

~>python3
Python 3.3.0 (default, Sep 29 2012, 22:07:38) 
[GCC 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import h5py
>>> 

Additional info:

This bug has been discussed online for h5py-2.1.3, including a solution, but the official distribution of h5py does not include the fix.

- Fix:
all
  import _conv
  import _objects
in all h5?.pyx files need to be changed to
  from h5py import _objects
  from h5py import _conv
the you can just (as root)
  yum install -y hdf5*