Francesc Alted wrote: > Well, the elegant way to solve this is to not allow such a big slices to > happen. But I recognize that sometimes this can be inconvenient.
To me, HDF5/PyTables is supposed to be (and almost always succeeds at being) an elegant way of letting me work with massive datasets without jumping through the additional hoops I would need to do otherwise. > In these cases, you can use the the `Leaf.truncate()` method: Fantastic tip. I will try this out. Many thanks for your help. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
