Hello Ask,
Since HDF5 itself supports this, then yes. This can be supported in
PyTables.
It would really help if you made a feature request for this on our giithub
issues <https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues>.
That way, we won't forget about it in the future ;).
Be Well
Anthony
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Ask Jakobsen <a...@jay.net> wrote:
> 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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