A Saturday 20 November 2010 09:54:23 Francesc Alted escrigué: > A Saturday 20 November 2010 00:14:40 Kannan Ramaswamy escrigué: > > Hi, > > I am having issues with reading table data generated by pytables in > > a HDF5 C program. The table is two columns with a Time64Col and a > > Float64Col fields. I get the below error in a C HDF5 program that > > uses the H5TBread_records() api to get the data. > > > > Do I need to register custom types to get at the data? Can you > > point me to some sample C code that works with Time64Col data? > > I tried to open the table in HDF5View -- it shows only the > > non-timestamp column in the table. > > > > I can navigate the table and get at the groups without any > > problems. I am using pytables 2.1.1 (hdf5 1.8.0) to create the > > hdf5 file and hdf5 1.8.5-patch1 to read the file on a x86_64 linux > > (CentOS5) machine. > > [clip] > > It seems like a limitation of the H5TB API. The Time64Col is mapped > into a HDF5's H5T_TIME class, so it is not a custom type but a > standard one. You may want to report this to the HDF5 crew.
BTW, I've just found an example of an HDF5 program for reading the H5T_TIME datatype: http://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf5-quest.html#time Hope this helps, -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users