Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables

2011-06-02 Thread Francesc Alted
Hi Anthony and others, Thanks for your interest in keeping pytables alive. I've seen how you really tried to push pytables in some scenarios, and I really appreciate this :) Some other people have expressed interest in this endeavour too, but apparently nobody seems ready to put a lot of

[Pytables-users] pytables 2.2.1 for Python2.5

2011-06-02 Thread BLACKMORE John
Hi, Is there a binary available for pytables 2.2.1 compiled for 32-bit Python 2.5? This would be very useful for me as I am working on a python system that already uses numpy1.4.1 which is not compatible with pytables 2.1.2 Thanks, John This email and any attachments are intended solely for

Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables

2011-06-02 Thread Hans Fangohr
Dear Francesc, just to say thank you very much for your work over the previous 8 years and the provision of PyTables to soo many people, and also thank you for your ongoing and dedicated support for PyTables users. We know of some of the projects that have made use of PyTables (which seem to

Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables

2011-06-02 Thread Curiouslearn
Hello Francesc, I recently started using Pytables; I was on my first project with it. And, I really liked the functionality it offered. I think you should be very proud of your accomplishment with Pytables. I am really sorry to see that you cannot develop it further. Thank you very much for

[Pytables-users] using data type of table attributes for creating numpy record array

2011-06-02 Thread Curiouslearn
Hi All, I am using pytables to store data in hdf5 format. Each table in the hdf5 file has many user defined attributes. For example: Suppose the table name is: thistab It has user defined attributes some of which are floats, some are ints and some are strings. For the float (and int)

Re: [Pytables-users] using data type of table attributes for creating numpy record array

2011-06-02 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hey Curious, I think that is probably because str do not have defined size on their own. Both numpy and pytables need to know the number of bytes something a variable is expected to have. By default, dtypes do a good job of guessing size, but you are overriding the default behavior and not

Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables

2011-06-02 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hello All, Francesc, I'd like to reiterate everyone's thanks and best wishes. Your work here is truly appreciated. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: Hi Anthony and others, Thanks for your interest in keeping pytables alive. I've seen how you really