From c9bf11bc059a3e145713cf9d84677cf127036b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonino Ingargiola <tritemio@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:11:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Save a space for empty descriptions. See #4.

---
 phconvert/hdf5.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/phconvert/hdf5.py b/phconvert/hdf5.py
index 3fe3e62..3823770 100644
--- a/phconvert/hdf5.py
+++ b/phconvert/hdf5.py
@@ -337,7 +337,8 @@ def dict_to_group(group, dictionary):
             # Set title through property access to work around pytable issue
             # under python 3 (https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues/469)
             node = group._f_get_child(key)
-            node.title = b''  # saved as binary both on py2 and py3
+            # Save a single space to workaround h5labview bug (see issue #4)
+            node.title = b' '  # saved as binary both on py2 and py3
     h5file.flush()
 
 def load_photon_hdf5(filename, strict=True):