A Tuesday 16 February 2010 13:19:29 Jon Olav Vik escrigué: > Anthony Foglia <AFoglia <at> princeton.com> writes: > > >> Is there a way to get a Description from a numpy dtype? > > > > http://www.pytables.org/trac/ticket/263 > > Maybe you don't need to. This recent enhancement allows you to use a dtype > as a description: > http://www.pytables.org/trac/browser/trunk/tables/file.py?rev=4230 > > 633 `description` > 634 This is an object that describes the table, i.e. how many > 635 columns it has, their names, types, shapes, etc. It can be > 636 any of the following: > > 650 A NumPy dtype > 651 A completely general structured NumPy dtype is accepted > 652 too, and its field structure will be reflected in the > 653 new `Table` object.
Good catch! I forgot about this capability. So, I think I can close #263 now. Thanks, -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
