Re: [Pytables-users] variable-length string error

[Francesc A. <fa...@ca...>]

A Wednesday 16 April 2008, Ateljevich, Eli escrigué:
> Hi,
> I am using PyTables on XP. I have a dataset generated by the HDF
> dimension scale API. The DIMENSION_LABELS attribute is listed 4-Byte
> null terminated ascii string. When I try to walk the tree an
> exception is raised saying that variable-length string arguments are
> not supported yet.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there anything I can do about this? I
> understand that dimension scales are not supported in any sort of
> official way. I just want a workaround so that I can use the
> datasets.

Well, PyTables doesn't support variable-length strings in attributes 
yet.

I've filed a ticket (http://www.pytables.org/trac/ticket/167) so that I 
don't forget to try to add support for it (at least for read-only 
mode).  I will try to add this for forthcoming 2.1 release, but I can't 
promise it.

Cheers,

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