Does anybody know how to install h5py on datalab? pip install h5py doesn't work. apt-get install python-h5py is working in the shell but it doesn't recognize the package in datalab notebook!
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It is true that !pip install h5py wil allow you to install the library but unfortunately, even after a successful installation, the import will fail: 
The issue is rooted on an ongoing python-future issue ("surrogateescape handler broken when encountering UnicodeEncodeError") that is experienced in datalab because the underlying OS uses an 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' file system encoding.
As a hacky workaround, you may remove line 60 from h5py's __init__.py by running the following command from within a notebook cell:
!sed -i.bak '/run_tests/d' /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py/__init__.py
