A Monday 27 October 2008, V S P escrigué: > Thank you very much for such a quick response > > I think specifying max for the string lenght > is sufficient (they are actually 64K text fields, > but I am thinking that I will create another array > that contains max true string length for a given dimension, > and use that array to set 'itemsize' )). > > > One more clarification question, if my file is netCDF4 > and uses compression, will pyTables work (in python 2.5 or 2.6)? > or will I have to rebuild pyTables with new netCDF4/hdf5 C libraries
PyTables have support for zlib, LZO and BZIP2 compressors. Zlib is the standard HDF5 compressor, so my guess is that this should work right out-of-the-box. But caveat emptor: although netCDF4 is built on top of HDF5, I've never used PyTables directly against native NetCDF4 files. My guess is that PyTables should recognize most of the NetCDF4 files, but I may be wrong. Please report any problems that you may experience on this regard. Cheers, -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
