On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote:
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5. The reference manual for numpy contains _many_ small examples. They
partially compensate for any lack of precision or excessive precision in
the documents. Also many people learn best from examples.
If you would like to
2011/12/6 Anthony Scopatz scop...@gmail.com
This is a function of the underlying HDF5 storage mechanism and not
explicitly PyTables.
When storing fixed length strings, the array of characters it is converted
to *must* be exactly
length-N. When serializing a string of length-M, HDF5 does the
2011/12/7 Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org
What you are saying is correct, except that the 'guilty' of dropping the
trailing null characters is NumPy, not HDF5. Look at this:
In [27]: import numpy as np
In [28]: np.array([aaa])
Out[28]:
array(['aaa'],
dtype='|S3')
In [29]:
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Josh Moore josh.mo...@gmx.de wrote:
On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote:
...snip...
5. The reference manual for numpy contains _many_ small examples. They
partially compensate for any lack of precision or excessive precision in
the
.
From: Edward C. Jones edcjo...@comcast.net
Date: December 6, 2011 9:25:08 PM GMT+01:00
To: pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Some experiences with PyTables
My computer has an up-to-date Debian stable distribution installed. I have
the following Debian packages (plus most dev
Hello Edward,
I'd like to respond point by point:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:54 PM, PyTables Org pytab...@googlemail.comwrote:
1. There seems to be an unpythonic design choice with the start, stop, step
convention for PyTables. Anything that is unnatural to a Python
programmer should be
