Re: [Pytables-users] openFile seems to hang

[Daniel W. <dan...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Anthony Scopatz <sc...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> I am glad that it is working for you.  I don't think that those version
> differences are significant enough to have caused the problem you
> were experiencing.  I bet there was some other externality in virtualenv
> that was causing this, though figuring out what it was might be more
> trouble than it is worth.  Once again, glad it is working for you.
>

Definitely not worth figuring out until it is easily reproducible. There
seems to have been two issues that were confusing me. I don't think the
version differences mattered at all. Firstly, I can't open an h5 file in
ipython for some reason though it works fine from the regular python
prompt. Secondly, the order in which imports occur seems to influence the
hanging behavior. As long as "tables" is imported before the "fipy"
package, it works fine. Fipy imports a lot of things including stuff with
mpi and threads that seems always to give issues. I suspect it is these
packages playing badly in some way.

-- 
Daniel Wheeler