ERROR: Failed building wheel for h5py

[Loreto Parisi]

Build error on Ubuntu 18.04
I get the build error ERROR: Failed building wheel for h5py.

and then

     #warning "Using deprecated NumPy API, disable it by " \
      ^~~~~~~
    In file included from /tmp/pip-install-z6jkh6m5/h5py/h5py/defs.c:639:0:
    /tmp/pip-install-z6jkh6m5/h5py/h5py/api_compat.h:27:10: fatal error: hdf5.h: No such file or directory
     #include "hdf5.h"
              ^~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
    ----------------------------------------

[tom5079]

prebuilt h5py 2.6 only supports up to python 3.6 as you can see here

Try installing with python 3.6