A Wednesday 07 May 2008, Cyrille Rosset escrigué: > Hello, > > I would like to know whether it is possible to use HDF5 files created > with the FAMILY driver with pytables ? > My test shows that it is not, but is there a good reason for that ? > Could it be made possible ? > > Thank you, > Cyrille Rosset.
Well, the reason for not supporting every HDF5 driver in PyTables is mainly lack of resources. However, looking at the HDF5 UG: """ If the application opens an HDF5 file without both determining the driver used to create the file and setting up the use of that driver, the HDF5 Library will examine the super block and the driver definition block to identify the driver. """ Since PyTables is not setting explicitely the use of a specific driver at opening time, HDF5 should transparently handle this. I'm not certain why it doesn't work in your case. Maybe this has been solved in latest HDF5 1.8.0, so perhaps trying this would be a good idea. Cheers, -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
