问题 I'm running into trouble reading a hdf5 matlab 7.3 file with Python. I'm using h5py 2.0.1. I can read all the matrices that are stored in the file, but I can not read a list of strings. h5py shows the strings as a dataset of shape (1, 894) with type |04. This data set contains object references, which I tried to dereference using the h5file[obj_ref] syntax. This yields something like dataset "FFb": shape (4, 1) type "<u2" . I interpreted that as a array of chars of length four. Which seems to