Re: [Pytables-users] PyTables 1.1-beta3

[Antonio V. <val...@co...>]

Hi Francesc,

Il giorno ven, 17-06-2005 alle 21:15 +0200, Francesc Altet ha scritto: 
> Hi List,
> 
> We are about to release PyTables 1.1. On this version you will find
> support for a nice set of new features, like nested datatypes,
> enumerated datatypes, nested iterators, support for native
> multidimensional attributes, a new object for dealing with compressed
> arrays, bzip2 compression support and more. Many bugs has been
> addressed as well.

a really good job ;)

> If you want to contribute by checking that everything is ok (included
> documentation!), please, download a snapshot from:
> 
> http://www.carabos.com/downloads/pytables/snapshots/
> 
> after midnight (UTC) of today, June 17th. 
> 
> Remember that, in order to be able to compile the beast from the
> snapshot you will need Pyrex:
> 
> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/
> 
> 
> Thanks!

the test fails on my laptop (see the attatched file).
It seems that the "itemsize" in the _createEArray method is never
initialized. This should fix the problem:

--- hdf5Extension.pyx (Id 1015 2005-06-17 17:55:14Z)
+++ hdf5Extension.pyx
@@ -1319,6 +1319,7 @@
     complib = PyString_AsString(self.filters.complib)
     version = PyString_AsString(self._v_version)
     class_ = PyString_AsString(self._c_classId)
+    itemsize = atom.itemsize 
     fill_value = <void *>malloc(<size_t> itemsize)
     if(fill_value):
       for i from  0 <= i < itemsize:

ciao

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