Fix a CI failure on h5py 3 (#388)

Closes #387. h5py 3 overhauls how string serialization works, meaning that the reader always has to ask for them to be decoded back to `str` from `bytes`.
pygae · Dec 28, 2020 · 6dfbeb8 · 6dfbeb8
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diff --git a/clifford/io.py b/clifford/io.py
@@ -136,5 +136,9 @@ def read_ga_file(file_name):
         else:
             support = None
         metric = f['metric'][:]
-        basis_names = f['basis_names'][:]
+        if hasattr(h5py.Dataset, 'asstr'):
+            basis_names = f['basis_names'].asstr()[:]
+        else:
+            # h5py < 3
+            basis_names = f['basis_names'][:]
     return data_array, metric, basis_names, support