Thanks very much Francesc. Your solution worked great. Thanks again
for sharing Pytables with the community.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Francesc Alted <fal...@pytables.org> wrote:
> A Wednesday 11 May 2011 04:55:22 Curiouslearn escrigué:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can someone please tell me if it is possible to iterate over user
>> defined attributes of a table and print them out? Basically, I am
>> looking to get the same information that results from:
>>
>> sometable.attrs
>>
>> except that
>>
>> (1) the above command also contains system attributes, which I don't
>> want. (2) I want to format the attribute name and its value in a
>> different manner than the above command yields.
>>
>> I tried the following code. This code does not work, but gives an
>> idea about what I need.
>>
>> for i in sometable.attrs._f_list():
>> print "{0} = {1}".format(i, sometable.attrs.i)
>>
>> The problem is that sometable.attrs.i does not return value of the
>> attribute, whose name is represented by i in any given iteration. I
>> want to go over the list of attributes and print their value.
>>
>
> Attributes cannot be accessed as normal class attributes, but as
> elements of a mapping type:
>
> for i in sometable.attrs._f_list(attrset='user'):
> print "{0} = {1}".format(i, sometable.attrs[i])
>
> See:
>
> http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual/ch04.html#AttributeSetClassDescr
>
> for a rational on why PyTables has chosen the 'getitem' getter instead
> of the 'getattr'.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Francesc Alted
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