Thanks, Anthony

In h5py there appears to be support for HDF5 references which would allow to 
store a reference to another dataset in an attribute (as I understand it). Can 
something similar be done in pytables?

Best, Ask

> Hello Ask,
> 
> What you are looking for in general are called Links in PyTables:
> http://pytables.github.com/usersguide/libref.html#the-softlink-class.
> Storing them as nodes on their own is easy.  Storing them as
> attributes on another node may be more tricky.  I am not even
> certain that HDF5 supports this.
> 
> Be Well
> Anthony
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Ask Jakobsen <a...@jay.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> Is it possible to store a HDF5 reference to another dataset in an
>> attribute in pytables?
>> 
>> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/Tutor/reftoobj.html
>> 
>> Best regards,
>>                       Ask
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