[Pytables-users] 0.7.1 pre-release

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

Hi everybody,

I've recently uploaded the 0.7.1 version of pytables. This is a mainly a
bug-fixing release, where the next problems has been addressed:

        - Fixed several memory leaks. After that, the memory
          consumption when using large object trees has dropped
          sensibly. However, there remains some small leaks, but
          hopefully they are not very important unless you use *huge*
          object trees.

	- Fixed a bug that make the __getitem__ special method in
          table to fail when the stop parameter in a extended slice
          was not specified. That is, table[10:] now correctly returns
          table[10:table.nrows+1], and not table[10:11].

	- The removeRows() method in Table did not update the NROWS
          attribute in Table objects, giving place to errors after
          doing further updating operations (removing or adding more
          rows) in the same table. This has been fixed now.

Apart of these fixes, a new lazy reading algorithm for attributes has
been activated by default. With that, the opening of objects with
large hierarchies has been improved by 60% (you can obtain another
additional 10% if using python 2.3 instead of python 2.2).

Let me know of any glitch I could have introduced on this release.

Enjoy!

-- Francesc Alted