Re: [Pytables-users] 10 years of PyTables

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

Thanks Anthony.  And yes, I'm really glad that PyTables continues alive 
and kicking so thanks to the new developers!  It is a bit sad that I'm 
not able to contribute anymore, but that's life.

Francesc

On 10/21/12 8:10 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote:
> Congrats Francesc!
>
> It is a testament to how useful PyTables is that it is still around and
> going strong!
>
> Personally, I know that your fast, polite, and in-depth responses on the
> mailing list have made PyTables the great resources that it is. 
>  Additionally,
> it has served as a model to me for how open source projects 
> /should/ be run!
>
> I'd also really like to thank Antonio for driving new features into 
> the code base!
>
> If only we were all on the same continent, we could have a PyTables 
> birthday
> party or something...
>
> Be Well
> Anthony
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Francesc Alted <fa...@py... 
> <mailto:fa...@py...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!,
>
>     This month PyTables celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first
>     public
>     release:
>
>     http://osdir.com/ml/python.scientific.user/2002-10/msg00043.html
>
>     There one can read that very new features of Python like
>     generators and
>     metaclasses were leveraged.  Even that a nascent Pyrex (the antecessor
>     of Cython) was used for the extensions.  Oh, what memories!
>
>     The original text below:
>
>     -------------------------------------------------------------
>     Hi!,
>
>     PyTables is a Python package which allows dealing with HDF5
>     tables. Such
>     a table is defined as a collection of records whose values are
>     stored in
>     fixed-length fields. PyTables is intended to be easy-to-use, and
>     tries to
>     be a high-performance interface to HDF5. To achieve this, the newest
>     improvements introduced in Python 2.2 (like generators or slots and
>     metaclasses in new-brand classes) has been used. Pyrex creation
>     extension
>     tool has been chosen to access the HDF5 library.
>
>     This package should be platform independent, but until now I've
>     tested it
>     only with Linux. It's the first public release (v 0.1), and it is in
>     alpha state.
>
>     You can get it from:
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytables/
>
>     There is still not a project home page. Perhaps in next days.
>
>     Feedback welcome.!
>
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