Re: [Pytables-users] Fwd: Re: Writing to a dataset with 'wrong' chunksize

2007-11-27 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Hi Fransesc, I had a quick look now what would happen with HDF5 1.8.0 beta5 (compiled with the api version flag in configure) and Pytables 2.0.2. To make pytables compile with it, I specified a correct HDF5_DIR and had to edit src/ utils.c to choose the first branch in the #ifdef at src/utils.c:

[Pytables-users] Fwd: Re: Writing to a dataset with 'wrong' chunksize

2007-11-27 Thread Francesc Altet
Hi Pauli, This is the answer of Quicey Koziol, one core developer of the HDF5 library about the memory problem when updating many chunks at the same time. Can you try the latest version of HDF5 1.8 series? It seems like this problem would be much alleviated. Remember to add the "--with-defa

Re: [Pytables-users] pytables for timeseries data

2007-11-27 Thread Pierre GM
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 01:26:49 Bradford Cross wrote: > In terms of storing datetime in pytables...there are a couple ways to go > about it floats and strings, with strings seeming to be preferable for > generic cross-platform use: Or just use the integers internally used in the timeseries pa