On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Francesc Alted <fal...@pytables.org> wrote:
> 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 ;)
>
+1
>
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> Francesc Alted
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