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)

[Pytables-users] Example compression of Tables

2011-05-02 Thread Curiouslearn
Hi All, Can someone please point me to an example that shows how a table in Pytables can be compressed using the standard zlib? Does the compression have to be specified when the table is created or can it be compressed after it has been created? For example, currently I have the following:

Re: [Pytables-users] Example compression of Tables

2011-05-02 Thread Curiouslearn
, thanks so much for creating Pytables. Really appreciate it. I am still playing with it and have not started using it for serious work, but hope to do so soon. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Curiouslearn curiousle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Can someone please point me to an example that shows

[Pytables-users] trouble opening file in hdfview

2010-10-26 Thread Curiouslearn
Hello, I created a .h5 file using the following code. I get an error saying that the file format is not supported. Am I doing something wrong, such as writing data that is a python specific type? Can one use hdfview to read files such as below? I installed HDFview on Mac Intel using the version

Re: [Pytables-users] description of tables

2010-10-25 Thread Curiouslearn
October 2010 19:47:30 Curiouslearn escrigué: Hi, I am very new to Pytables. I was trying out the commands in the tutorial and learnt that to create a new table I need to describe columns as class variables. For example, import pytables def tableFormat(tables.IsDescription):    column1Name