A Tuesday 11 March 2008, dragan savic escrigué:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to build a table with a first column
> having a string type. I get the following error:
>
>   File
> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\tables\description.py",
> line 169, in from_
> type newatom = atom.Atom.from_type(type, shape, dflt)
> File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\tables\atom.py",
> line 445, in from_type
>     raise ValueError("unknown type: %r" % (type,))
> ValueError: unknown type: 'String'
> Closing remaining open files: TABLE_2_0_TEST.h5...
> done
>
> I used "Col.from_type" for creating columns. As I
> looked up in the manual the Type Code for char is
> String. I have problems only with this type. Any
> suggestions on how to solve this?

Try 'string' instead.  In table A.1 it is written as 'String', but it is 
an errata.  We should fix it.

Cheers,

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