Re: [Pytables-users] Table Description from dtype

2010-02-16 Thread Jon Olav Vik
Anthony Foglia princeton.com> writes: > >>Is there a way to get a Description from a numpy dtype? > http://www.pytables.org/trac/ticket/263 Maybe you don't need to. This recent enhancement allows you to use a dtype as a description: http://www.pytables.org/trac/browser/trunk/tables/file.py?r

Re: [Pytables-users] Table Description from dtype

2010-02-16 Thread Francesc Alted
A Tuesday 16 February 2010 13:19:29 Jon Olav Vik escrigué: > Anthony Foglia princeton.com> writes: > > >> Is there a way to get a Description from a numpy dtype? > > > > http://www.pytables.org/trac/ticket/263 > > Maybe you don't need to. This recent enhancement allows you to use a dtype > as a

Re: [Pytables-users] Table Description from dtype

2010-02-16 Thread Anthony Foglia
Francesc Alted wrote: > A Tuesday 16 February 2010 13:19:29 Jon Olav Vik escrigué: >> Anthony Foglia princeton.com> writes: > Is there a way to get a Description from a numpy dtype? >>> http://www.pytables.org/trac/ticket/263 >> Maybe you don't need to. This recent enhancement allows you to

Re: [Pytables-users] Table Description from dtype

2010-02-16 Thread Francesc Alted
A Tuesday 16 February 2010 20:14:38 Anthony Foglia escrigué: > Francesc Alted wrote: > > A Tuesday 16 February 2010 13:19:29 Jon Olav Vik escrigué: > >> Anthony Foglia princeton.com> writes: > > Is there a way to get a Description from a numpy dtype? > >>> > >>> http://www.pytables.org

Re: [Pytables-users] Table Description from dtype

2010-02-16 Thread Anthony Foglia
Francesc Alted wrote: > I see. Would it help if you can get a dtype from a Description object via > `table.description._v_dtype` and compare it to the dtype the user is passing > in? Yes, that would work for my case. -- Anthony Foglia Princeton Consultants (609) 987-8787 x233 --

Re: [Pytables-users] Table Description from dtype

2010-02-16 Thread Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
Anthony Foglia (el 2010-02-16 a les 14:14:38 -0500) va dir:: > […] The user will probably want to pass in a dtype to construct the table, if > need be. I'd like to test the description obtained from that with the > description from any pre-existing tables, and throw an error otherwise. […] If ``