[Pytables-users] Problem using HDFStore in pandas on Windows 64-bit Anaconda CE

[Jon R. <row...@gm...>]

Hi - apologies if this is a duplicate, I had an error sending the
first time and wasn't sure if it made it through.

I have an issue using pandas/HDFStore/pytables in the Anaconda CE
distribution on Windows 64-bit.

After a little troubleshooting with the Anaconda/pandas lists, it's
been suggested that it might be a pytables issue (or at least some
kind of package mismatch causing pytables not to work).

I have a clean install of Anaconda 1.3.1 64-bit CE edition on a
Windows 64-bit machine.

Running the pytables self-test gives the following output:

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
PyTables version:  2.4.0
HDF5 version:      1.8.9
NumPy version:     1.6.2
Numexpr version:   2.0.1 (not using Intel's VML/MKL)
Zlib version:      1.2.3 (in Python interpreter)
Blosc version:     1.1.3 (2010-11-16)
Cython version:    0.17.4
Python version:    2.7.3 |AnacondaCE 1.3.1 (64-bit)| (default, Jan  7
2013, 09:47:12) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
Byte-ordering:     little
Detected cores:    4
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Then I get a *lot* of output to standard error - pages and pages of it
- that looks something like this:

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\tables\filters.py:253: FiltersWarning:
compression library ``bzip2`` is not available; using ``zlib`` instead
  % (complib, default_complib), FiltersWarning )
C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\tables\filters.py:253: FiltersWarning:
compression library ``lzo`` is not available; using ``zlib`` instead
  % (complib, default_complib), FiltersWarning )
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.9) thread 0:
  #000: ..\..\src\H5A.c line 241 in H5Acreate2(): not a type
    major: Invalid arguments to routine
    minor: Inappropriate type
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.9) thread 0:
  #000: ..\..\src\H5A.c line 920 in H5Awrite(): not an attribute
    major: Invalid arguments to routine
    minor: Inappropriate type
EHDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.9) thread 0:
  #000: ..\..\src\H5A.c line 241 in H5Acreate2(): not a type
    major: Invalid arguments to routine
    minor: Inappropriate type

Is this something I'm doing wrong or is there something wrong with the package?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jon