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+{ stdenv, fetchurl, python, buildPythonPackage
+, numpy, hdf5, cython
+, mpiSupport ? false, mpi4py ? null, mpi ? null }:
+
+assert mpiSupport == hdf5.mpiSupport;
+assert mpiSupport -> mpi != null
+  && mpi4py != null
+  && mpi == mpi4py.mpi
+  && mpi == hdf5.mpi
+  ;
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "h5py-2.3.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/h/h5py/${name}.tar.gz";
+    md5 = "8f32f96d653e904d20f9f910c6d9dd91";
+  };
+
+  setupPyBuildFlags = [ "--hdf5=${hdf5}" ]
+    ++ optional mpiSupport "--mpi"
+    ;
+  setupPyInstallFlags = setupPyBuildFlags;
+
+  preBuild = if mpiSupport then "export CC=${mpi}/bin/mpicc" else "";
+
+  buildInputs = [ hdf5 cython ]
+    ++ optional mpiSupport mpi
+    ;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy ]
+    ++ optional mpiSupport mpi4py
+    ;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "
+      The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5 binary data format.
+    ";
+    homepage = "http://www.h5py.org/";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd2;
+  };
+}