Re: Fwd: Re: [Pytables-users] Re: natural naming versus getitem/setitem

[Norbert N. <Nor...@gm...>]

Am Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2005 13:35 schrieb Francesc Altet:
> Yeah, but I have to give to that a more complete thought before stepping
>  ahead and implementing that. There are some issues with CSTables (the
>  forthcoming client-server version of PyTables) that would have problems
>  using:
>
> group["name"] = Array()
>
> or even
>
> group.name = Array()
>
> This last sentence is perfectly possible now, but may be deprecated in the
> future.  However, as I said before, this needs more thought on our part.

Well, I hope you'll find a way to allow it. In any case, adding children 
should be a method of the group, not of the file. As I see it, creating, 
moving and changing groups, items and subtrees should happen completely 
transparent to the user, no matter whether they are in the same file or in 
different files. File should offer root as an entry point, but the tree 
should just span from there transparently.

And one you are at that point the detailed method of adding members should be 
mostly cosmetics, so the above mentioned syntax should be rather simple to 
implement.

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