Francesc, thanks so much! When trying to find the solution I browsed through the tutorial. However, the title of section 3.4 threw me off. This is great!
And, thanks for creating this wonderful utility. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Francesc Alted <fal...@pytables.org> wrote: > A Monday 25 October 2010 19:47:30 Curiouslearn escrigué: >> Hi, >> >> I am very new to Pytables. I was trying out the commands in the >> tutorial and learnt that to create a new table I need to describe >> columns as class variables. For example, >> >> import pytables >> >> def tableFormat(tables.IsDescription): >> column1Name = tables.StringCol(16) >> column2Name = tables.StringCol(16) >> column3Name = tables.StringCol(16) >> >> This is fine if I have only a few columns. What if I have 100 columns >> (each column being a run from a simulation) and I want to name them >> PriceVector1, PriceVector2, ..., PriceVector100. >> >> Is there a way to create table without typing out name of each of the >> 100 columns? > > Yes, many. See the `description` docstring of `File.createTable` for > all possible ways to pass table descriptions: > > http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual/ch04.html#createTableDescr > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Francesc Alted > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Pytables-users mailing list > Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
