Thanks Anthony, I think I will give a try, apprently at some stage I would
like to flush the data into disk :p
cheers,
Chao
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Anthony Scopatz <scop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Chao YUE <chaoyue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a hierachical nested python dictionaries with the end of the
>> branch as either pandas dataframe, or np.ndarray or list or plain scalars.
>>
>> let's say the different levels of keys are:
>>
>> 1st level: ['top1', 'top2', 'top3']
>> 2nd level: ['mid1','mid2','mid3']
>> 3rd level: ['bot1','bot2','bot3','bot4']
>>
>> I think I am looking for some data strucuture that allow easy retrieving
>> of the data at different levels as dictionaries (I cannot think out
>> something better yet).
>>
>> for example: data.ix['top1',:,'bot1'] will have keys only at the middle
>> levels.
>>
>> I have a quick look of pytables document but not very sure, should I use
>> pytables for this purpose?
>>
>
> Hello Chao,
>
> If you are only ever going to use this data structure in memory, you
> shouldn't use pytables. If you are going to persist this information to
> disk than pytables is a great choice! Every dictionary will become a group
> and every leaf data structure will become an Array or a Table.
>
> Be Well
> Anthony
>
>
>>
>> thanks a lot for any idea.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Chao
>>
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