Hi Andre,

I am a little confused.  Let me verify.  You have 400 hdf5 file (re and
im) buried in an a unix directory tree.  You want to make a single file
which concatenates this data.  Is this right?

Be Well
Anthony

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Andre' Walker-Loud <walksl...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just a strategy question.
> I have many hdf5 files containing data for different measurements of the
> same quantities.
>
> My directory tree looks like
>
> top description [ group ]
>   sub description [ group ]
>     avg [ group ]
>       re [ numpy array shape = (96,1,2) ]
>       im [ numpy array shape = (96,1,2) ] - only exists for know subset of
> data files
>
> I have ~400 of these files.  What I want to do is create a single file,
> which collects all of these files with exactly the same directory
> structure, except at the very bottom
>
>       re [ numpy array shape = (400,96,1,2) ]
>
>
> The simplest thing I came up with to do this is loop over the two levels
> of descriptive group structures, and build the numpy array for the final
> set this way.
>
> basic loop structure:
>
> final_file = tables.openFile('all_data.h5','a')
>
> for d1 in top_description:
>     final_file.createGroup(final_file.root,d1)
>     for d2 in sub_description:
>         final_file.createGroup(final_file.root+'/'+d1,d2)
>         data_re = np.zeros([400,96,1,2])
>         for i,file in enumerate(hdf5_files):
>             tmp = tables.openFile(file)
>             data_re[i] = np.array(tmp.getNode('/d1/d2/avg/re')
>             tmp.close()
>         final_file.createArray(final_file.root+'/'+d1+'/'+d2,'re',data_re)
>
>
> But this involves opening and closing the individual 400 hdf5 files many
> times.
> There must be a smarter algorithmic way to do this - or perhaps built in
> pytables tools.
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
>
> Andre
>
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