Re: [Pytables-users] truncate float arrays to save space?

2013-05-25 Thread Antonio Valentino
Hi Andreas, Il giorno 25/mag/2013, alle ore 17:06, Andreas Hilboll ha scritto: > Am 25.05.2013 14:27, schrieb Andreas Hilboll: >> Hi, >> >> the netcdf4-python project >> (http://netcdf4-python.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/netCDF4.Dataset-class.html#createVariable) >> supports a "least_signifi

Re: [Pytables-users] truncate float arrays to save space?

2013-05-25 Thread Francesc Alted
On 5/25/13 5:06 PM, Andreas Hilboll wrote: > Am 25.05.2013 14:27, schrieb Andreas Hilboll: >> Hi, >> >> the netcdf4-python project >> (http://netcdf4-python.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/netCDF4.Dataset-class.html#createVariable) >> supports a "least_significant_digit" attribute when creating a >>

Re: [Pytables-users] truncate float arrays to save space?

2013-05-25 Thread Andreas Hilboll
Am 25.05.2013 14:27, schrieb Andreas Hilboll: > Hi, > > the netcdf4-python project > (http://netcdf4-python.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/netCDF4.Dataset-class.html#createVariable) > supports a "least_significant_digit" attribute when creating a > variable/array. This leads to a truncation of the

[Pytables-users] truncate float arrays to save space?

2013-05-25 Thread Andreas Hilboll
Hi, the netcdf4-python project (http://netcdf4-python.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/netCDF4.Dataset-class.html#createVariable) supports a "least_significant_digit" attribute when creating a variable/array. This leads to a truncation of the array data before storing it to disk (https://code.google.