[Pytables-users] Variable Length Datatype support

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

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Hi Francesc, thanks for PyTables, it's truly impressive.

A feature request: what would it take to implement the support for the VL
(Variable Length) Datatype? I would be more than happy to help with that, but
need some pointers to move around without breaking anything. :^)

I'm asking since I need to build indices pointing to rows containing each
data value, and from the HDF5 docs the VL Datatype seems the best solution
for this.

Otherwise I would have to build a new table for each distinct data value, and
there can be thousand of those. :^(


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Nicola Larosa - ni...@te...

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