A Monday 26 April 2010 21:34:00 Anthony Foglia escrigué:
> I'm running PyTables 2.1.2 which HDF5 version 1.8.4. As I've mentioned
> earlier I have some code that has multiple file handles to a single
> file, one for writing, others for reading. I'm trying to refactor my
> code to avoid this, but I've stumbled across this bug.
>
>
> In [1]: import tables
>
> In [2]: fyle = tables.openFile("foo.h5")
>
> In [3]: fyle2 = tables.openFile("foo.h5",mode="a")
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.4) thread 0:
[clip]
> I understand what I'm doing is not well accepted, but PyTables should be
> robust enough to handle it in a stable manner. (I don't even understand
> the "Can't open the group: '/'" error as the file obviously has one.)
This has been addressed in 2.2 series. In trunk, you have:
In [1]: import tables
In [2]: fyle = tables.openFile("/tmp/file1.h5")
In [3]: fyle2 = tables.openFile("/tmp/file1.h5",mode="a")
In [4]: fyle
Out[4]:
File(filename=/tmp/file1.h5, title='', mode='r', rootUEP='/',
filters=Filters(complevel=0, shuffle=False, fletcher32=False))
/ (RootGroup) ''
In [5]: fyle2
Out[5]:
File(filename=/tmp/file1.h5, title='', mode='r', rootUEP='/',
filters=Filters(complevel=0, shuffle=False, fletcher32=False))
/ (RootGroup) ''
But, as you can see, `fyle2` is opened in read-only mode (it is basically a
pointer to existing `fyle` handler). Mmh, I'm not sure whether this is good
practice or the second opening should fail with something like:
raise ValueError(
"The file '%s' is already opened. Please "
"close it before reopening in 'a'ppend mode." % filename)
What do you think is more convenient?
--
Francesc Alted
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