Thanks Anthony. And yes, I'm really glad that PyTables continues alive and kicking so thanks to the new developers! It is a bit sad that I'm not able to contribute anymore, but that's life.
Francesc On 10/21/12 8:10 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: > Congrats Francesc! > > It is a testament to how useful PyTables is that it is still around and > going strong! > > Personally, I know that your fast, polite, and in-depth responses on the > mailing list have made PyTables the great resources that it is. > Additionally, > it has served as a model to me for how open source projects > /should/ be run! > > I'd also really like to thank Antonio for driving new features into > the code base! > > If only we were all on the same continent, we could have a PyTables > birthday > party or something... > > Be Well > Anthony > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Francesc Alted <fal...@pytables.org > <mailto:fal...@pytables.org>> wrote: > > Hi!, > > This month PyTables celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first > public > release: > > http://osdir.com/ml/python.scientific.user/2002-10/msg00043.html > > There one can read that very new features of Python like > generators and > metaclasses were leveraged. Even that a nascent Pyrex (the antecessor > of Cython) was used for the extensions. Oh, what memories! > > The original text below: > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi!, > > PyTables is a Python package which allows dealing with HDF5 > tables. Such > a table is defined as a collection of records whose values are > stored in > fixed-length fields. PyTables is intended to be easy-to-use, and > tries to > be a high-performance interface to HDF5. To achieve this, the newest > improvements introduced in Python 2.2 (like generators or slots and > metaclasses in new-brand classes) has been used. Pyrex creation > extension > tool has been chosen to access the HDF5 library. > > This package should be platform independent, but until now I've > tested it > only with Linux. It's the first public release (v 0.1), and it is in > alpha state. > > You can get it from: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytables/ > > There is still not a project home page. Perhaps in next days. > > Feedback welcome.! > > -- > Francesc Alted PGP KeyID: 0x61C8C11F > Scientific aplications developer > Public PGP key available:http://www.openlc.org/falted_at_openlc.asc > Key fingerprint = 1518 38FE 3A3D 8BE8 24A0 3E5B 1328 32CC 61C8 C11F > > > -- > Francesc Alted > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > Pytables-users mailing list > Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > > > _______________________________________________ > Pytables-users mailing list > Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
