From 6dfbeb8d7ee3a766b80b999e3d84558fb80c06fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wieser <wieser.eric@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:53:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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`.
---
 clifford/io.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/clifford/io.py b/clifford/io.py
index 958486ae..24cbb4d7 100644
--- 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