On 3/28/12 12:33 PM, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to evaluate compression filters, I was looking for a call in > PyTables to get the size of a dataset (in bytes). As I didn't find it > I remembered the many benchmarks and found instead [1] that the way to > do it is to create single-dataset files and interrogate the > filesystem. Curiously enough, I didn't find that feature either in > h5ls, hdfview or ViTables. Is there a structural reason why this size > cannot be computed from library calls?
No, no structural reasons, but rather that nobody bothered to implement this. A patch for this would be more than welcome ;) -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
