Re: [Pytables-users] Optimizing pytables for reading entire columns at a time

2012-09-21 Thread Alvaro Tejero Cantero
Hi! You may want to have a look | reuse | combine your approach with that implemented in pandas (pandas.io.pytables.HDFStore) https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/master/pandas/io/pytables.py (see _write_array method) A certain liberality in Pandas with dtypes (partly induced by the missing da

Re: [Pytables-users] Optimizing pytables for reading entire columns at a time

2012-09-21 Thread Luke Lee
Hi again, I haven't been getting the updates via email so I'm attempting to post again to respond. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have a few questions: 1. What is the benefit of using the stand-alone carray project ( https://github.com/FrancescAlted/carray) vs Pytables.carray? 2. I re

Re: [Pytables-users] Optimizing pytables for reading entire columns at a time

2012-09-21 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Luke Lee wrote: > Hi again, > > I haven't been getting the updates via email so I'm attempting to post > again to respond. > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have a few questions: > > 1. What is the benefit of using the stand-alone carray project ( > ht

Re: [Pytables-users] Optimizing pytables for reading entire columns at a time

2012-09-21 Thread Francesc Alted
On 9/21/12 10:07 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Luke Lee > wrote: > > Hi again, > > I haven't been getting the updates via email so I'm attempting to > post again to respond. > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I ha

Re: [Pytables-users] Optimizing pytables for reading entire columns at a time

2012-09-21 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Francesc Alted wrote: > On 9/21/12 10:07 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Luke Lee > > wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > I haven't been getting the updates via email so I'm attempting to > >