title: Storing a list of strings to a HDF5 Dataset from Python
body: <p>I am trying to store a variable length list of string to a HDF5 Dataset. The code for this is</p>
  
  <pre><code>import h5py
  h5File=h5py.File('xxx.h5','w')
  strList=['asas','asas','asas']  
  h5File.create_dataset('xxx',(len(strList),1),'S10',strList)
  h5File.flush() 
  h5File.Close()  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting an error stating that "TypeError: No conversion path for dtype: dtype('&amp;lt U3')"
  where the &amp;lt means actual less than symbol<br>
  How can I solve this problem. </p>