On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Davide Cittaro <daweonl...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:32 AM, Anthony Scopatz wrote:
>
> Hello Davide,
>
> Yes it is possible to store fixed sized arrays in a Table.   The column
> classes (IntCol, Float64Col, etc) all take a 'shape' argument in
> their constructor which takes a tuple of the rank and dimension information.
>
> Float64Col('array', shape=(2, 4))
>
> for a 2x4 array.
>
>
> Great! Just a quick question (but I guess I'll made my tests): from the
> compression/storage efficiency point of view, does it make any difference
> an element StringCol or a UInt8Col array of the same length?
>

No, not really.  There *might* be some metadata which is different, but in
terms of the table entries themselves I don't think so.

Glad I could help!
Be Well
Anthony


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> Be Well
> Anthony
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Davide Cittaro <daweonl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all, is it possible to create a table class that includes arrays? I
>> have to store fixed size arrays and the most effective way to do it (in
>> terms of compression) seems to be tables with strings (representing the
>> arrays).
>>
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