Re: [Pytables-users] Converting Well-Defined Python Dictionary to pytables rows

2009-04-13 Thread Francesc Alted
A Monday 13 April 2009, Dav Clark escrigué: > Interesting. I think this is worth mentioning on the list... > > In brief - is there a reasonable upper limit on the number of arrays > and/or tables that one should put in a single group in PyTables? Yes. In order to keep HDF5 metadata under reasona

Re: [Pytables-users] Converting Well-Defined Python Dictionary to pytables rows

2009-04-13 Thread Dav Clark
Interesting. I think this is worth mentioning on the list... In brief - is there a reasonable upper limit on the number of arrays and/or tables that one should put in a single group in PyTables? DC On Apr 13, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Mark Fenner wrote: So, it turns out that there are simply too

Re: [Pytables-users] Converting Well-Defined Python Dictionary to pytables rows

2009-04-13 Thread Francesc Alted
Hi Mark, A Saturday 11 April 2009, Mark Fenner escrigué: > Hi folks, > > Quick question: > > I have data (lots of it) that looks like this: > > mydict['key_string'] = [(int1, 'str1'), (int2, 'str2'), ... (intn, > 'strn')] > > The ints are 7 digits max (unsigned 24 bits max); the strings are a 3 >

[Pytables-users] Converting Well-Defined Python Dictionary to pytables rows

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Fenner
Hi folks, Quick question: I have data (lots of it) that looks like this: mydict['key_string'] = [(int1, 'str1'), (int2, 'str2'), ... (intn, 'strn')] The ints are 7 digits max (unsigned 24 bits max); the strings are a 3 character code (it could be replaced with a 4-bit number -- possible an Enum