Re: [Pytables-users] Support for Arrays in Tables

[Edward H. <ha...@co...>]

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 12:56  pm, Francesc Alted wrote:

> A Dilluns 14 Abril 2003 13:28, Edward Hartley va escriure:
>> I have found another way to get around the issue by specifying the
>> shape in one field
>> class my_array(IsDescription):
>> 	array_ shape = Col('UInt8', shape)
>> 	ravelled_array=Col('UInt8' , data)
>> it occurs to me that with suitable accessor methods this would solve 
>> it
>> completely?
>
> Right. I've already thought implementing something similar to emulate
> transparently more than one-dimensional arrays as Table columns. 
> However,
> for a series of reasons, I prefer to wait until recarray objects 
> support
> that natively.
  I agree waiting for recarray support is appropriate
>
> Meanwhile, you can effectively deal with multimensional arrays in your
> suggested way.
>
agreed