Hi Anthony, what do you mean precisely? I tried
del ca[:,:] but CArray does not support __delitem__. Looking in the documentation I could only find a method called remove_rows, but it's in Table, not CArray. Maybe I am missing something? Thank, Giovanni On Mon 05 Aug 2013 03:43:42 PM EDT, pytables-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> Hello Giovanni, I think you may need to del that slice and then possibly >> repack. Hope this helps. Be Well Anthony On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:09 PM, >> Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia < glciamp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> is there a way to clear out a chunk from a CArray? I noticed that setting >>> the >>> data to zero actually takes disk space, i.e. >>> >>> *** >>> from tables import open_file, BoolAtom >>> >>> h5f = open_file('test.h5', 'w') >>> ca = h5f.create_carray(h5f.root, 'carray', BoolAtom(), shape=(1000,1000), >>> chunkshape=(1,1000)) >>> ca[:,:] = False >>> h5f.close() >>> *** >>> >>> The resulting file takes 249K ... >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> -- >>> Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia >>> >>> Postdoctoral fellow >>> Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research >>> Indiana University >>> >>> ? 910 E 10th St ? Bloomington ? IN 47408 >>> ?http://cnets.indiana.edu/ >>> ?gciam...@indiana.edu >>> > -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Postdoctoral fellow Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University ✎ 910 E 10th St ∙ Bloomington ∙ IN 47408 ☞ http://cnets.indiana.edu/ ✉ gciam...@indiana.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users