A Wednesday 17 October 2007, Darren Dale escrigué: > > Mmm, I'm curious about which datatype should be causing this. Can > > you try applying the attached patch and send me the output? > [snip] > datatype--> f > datatype--> <---- > Edatatype--> f <----
Well, this seems to correspond to a complex type. Apparently the go and back trip to/from a netcdf3 file for complex types doesn't work as it should on your machine. The fact is that the netcdf3 module is becoming more and more dangerous as the Numeric package is ageing. Perhaps we should start to think in deprecate it (unless the original contributor, Jeff Whitaker, would like to contribute a complete replacement of Numeric by NumPy for it). By the way, if what you want is to access netcdf3 files, maybe you might want to look at the netcdf4-python project (http://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/) which is being led by the very same Jeff that contributed the netcdf3 module for PyTables. > > > Is the netcdf error a known pytables bug, or is it maybe a > > > configuration issue on my end? > > > > I don't know. The NetCDF module still relies on having a proper > > installation of Numeric, and I know that Numeric has issues in > > 64-bit machines (specially when using Python 2.5). > > I know, I'm the one who discovered the issue. The folks at gentoo > created a patch for Numeric, so it will run and pass all the tests on > a 64 bit machine with python-2.5. I guess it is still possible that > there are some issues not addressed by the patch and not exposed by > Numeric's tests. Yes, I'm afraid that there might remain non solved issues with Numeric with 64-bit platforms. > The manual does not indicate that Numeric is required for netcdf3. You are right. I've added a ticket on this: http://www.pytables.org/trac/ticket/124 Cheers, -- >0,0< Francesc Altet http://www.carabos.com/ V V Cárabos Coop. V. Enjoy Data "-" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
