On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Abhishek Pratap wrote: > Super awesome. I love how the python community in general keeps the > recordings available for free. > > @Adam : I do have some problems that I can hit numpy with, mainly > bigData based. So in summary I have millions/billions of rows of > biological data on which I want to run some computation but at the > same time have a capability to do quick lookup. I am not sure if numpy > will be applicable for quick lookups by a string based key right ??
PyTables does precisely that. Allows to do out-of-core operations with large arrays, store tables with an unlimited number of rows on-disk and, by using its integrated indexing engine (OPSI), you can perform quick lookups based on strings (or whatever other type). Look into these examples: http://www.pytables.org/moin/HowToUse#Selectingvalues HTH, -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
