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

2011-09-08 Thread Salman
Salman msn.com> writes: This is what I am trying to do: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5366099/in-pytables-how-to-create-nested-array-of-variable-length Salman -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual

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

2011-09-08 Thread Salman
Francesc Alted pytables.org> writes: > > A Friday 01 July 2011 02:21:04 Anthony Scopatz escrigué: > > 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 thi

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

2011-07-03 Thread Francesc Alted
A Friday 01 July 2011 02:21:04 Anthony Scopatz escrigué: > 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 op

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 re

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

2011-06-30 Thread Jason Moore
Thanks for all the tips on this. It is finally clear what is going on. I think they fact that you can specify a shape for table columns leads beginners down a the road I'm on. When I chose to use pytables after reading some of the documentation and playing with the code, it never occurred to me tha

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

2011-06-22 Thread Tallhamer, Mike
read the path and retrieve the dataset. Is it possible to store a hard link and have it directly return the dataset upon accessing the column? -Mike Message: 3 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:10:57 -0500 From: Anthony Scopatz Subject: Re: [Pytables-users] Variable length arrays for each row

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

2011-06-22 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hi Jason, Upon further inspection, I think that this comes down to a spelling issue. Really, what you want is a VL structure inside of a table. Tables are themselves VL structures and have been special cased to nest themselves. This could be changed to allow more general VL structures to be nes

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

2011-06-22 Thread Dav Clark
As of 2009, I don't think this functionality was supported. You can look here for one solution "I always recommend": http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01207.html If you store separate vlarrays for each trial, you can keep metadata on those vlarrays (guaranteed

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

2011-06-22 Thread Jason Moore
Anthony, I read of the documentation and tried creating a table with a VLArray nested inside, but can't seem to figure out how to nest anything inside a table other than another table description. I found this question that is trying to do exactly what I want to do: http://stackoverflow.com/ques

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

2011-06-22 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Also note that whenever you are dealing with variable length stuctures, chuncksize is very important. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: > Hi Jason, > > You can try nesting variable length arrays inside of your table ( > http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual/ch04.html#VLArrayC

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

2011-06-22 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hi Jason, You can try nesting variable length arrays inside of your table ( http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual/ch04.html#VLArrayClassDescr). You might need to refer to nested tables to get an idea of how to do this ( http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual/ch03.html#id332794). On the HDF5 level, ta

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

2011-06-22 Thread Jason Moore
Hi, I've been attempting to use pyTables to store data from a data acquisition system that I'm using for my experimental work. I currently make use of several pytables tables to store the data and really like the querying ability that the table object provides. But I have an issue with storing arr