Implemented hdf5_file_reader.py and updated register.yaml and hdf5_writer.py. This replaces previous function __copy_file_in_group().

Implemented create_hdf5_from_filesystem_new() using new instrument readers cml interface and subprocesses. This facilitates extension of file reading capabilities by collaborators without requiring changes to file_registry.py. Only additions in folders and registry.yaml.

Change import statements with try except to enable explicit import of submodules from import to avoid conflicts with parent project.

Check whether h5 file being written exists. If so, we do not overwrite it because it may be underdoing refinement, changes or updates, for archiving, sharing, or publishing.

Fixed bug in HDF5DataOpsManager.append_dataset() and added 'creation_date' metadata attribute when instrument (groups) are created.

Fixed bug, causing input_path normalization operation to damage Windows network drive paths. Basically, os.path.normpath(path_to_input_directory).strip(os.sep) replaced by os.path.normpath(path_to_input_directory).rstrip(os.sep)

Performed a few function relocations and deletions from src/hdf5_lib.py into src/hdf5_ops.py and made a copy of previous version as src/hdf5_lib_part2.py

Moved is_structured_array() and to_serializable_dtype() to utils, ranamed a few functions and propagated changes to dependent modules.

Robustified definition of path_to_input_dir arg or parameter by ensuring is always defined using forward slashes and then is normalized to the os specification. Improved dry run = True of copy directory func.

Major update. Remove file filtering option and outputname input arg. The output name is now the same as the path_to_input_dir + .h5. By default, the hdf5 writer preserves second level subdirectories and the rest are flattend. dir filtering is outsource to copy_dir_with_constraints from utils-

Moved ext_to_reader_dict to g5505_file_reader.py and replaced redear selection based on g5505_reader.select_file_reader(hdf5_file_path).

Added attribution insertion order tracking at the root level and reorganized a few import statements.

Moved parse_attribute() from ..review_lib.py into ...utils.py and backpropagate (refactored) changes to respective modules.

Moved a few functions from ...reader.py and hdf5_lib.py into ..utils.py, and refactored accordingly.

Cleaned code and modified def create_hdf5_file_from_dataframe to create group hierichy implicitly from path rather than recursively.

Added a few lines to detect the existence of the file and change the file mode from 'w' to 'a' based on that information.

Fixed bug regarding datetime to str column conversion in dataframe by using .map(srt) (element wise operation) as opposed to .apply(str)