Re: [Pytables-users] renaming a column

2011-06-30 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hi Ben, The column names are stored as attributes of the table which follow the following pattern FIELD_(\d+)_NAME, where the group is given as a zero-index column number. (In ViTables, access properties for a table and then look at the System Attributes tab.) You might be able to just change

Re: [Pytables-users] Variable length arrays for each row in a table

2011-06-30 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hi Jason, Glad we could help, and that your problem seemed to get worked out. I agree that VLArrayCol would be nice, even though I still think that nested tables handle this (albeit with a little more syntax). Feel free to open an issue on github about this, including some of the comments and