Sorry for the late reply, but this should work perfectly. Thanks!
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Gabriel Beckers
<pytables-u...@gbeckers.nl>wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> Isn't it possible to give a default argument when you declare a Column
> Desciptor? I haven't tried this, but something like
>
> > class Particle(IsDescription)
> > pressure = Float64Col(dflt=5.0)
>
> should give you a table description that can be used to create a table
> with one float col that defaults to 5.0.
>
> Cheers, Gabriel
>
> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 21:21 -0500, Charles Krohn wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I need to create a large table where all values in each column are set
> > to some initial value... thus all rows are identical. I thought
> > something like this would work:
> >
> > r = t.row
> > r['col'] = 3.14159
> > for i in range(table_len):
> > r.append()
> >
> > But this just fills the first row. The remaining rows are blank.
> > I've resorted to filling in each row before each append, but this
> > seems needlessly slow. Is there a faster way to do this? Ideally I
> > would be able to specify default values for each column in the table
> > description. For some reason I thought this was possible, but I don't
> > see any mention in the documentation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Charles
> >
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