Re: Re Re: [Pytables-users] Suggestions for storing mutlidimensionnal data in several pytables arrays

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

A Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:08, Cyril Giraudon va escriure:
> Francesc Altet a =E9crit :
> >Yes. I've done some research and found this:
> >
> >http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/H5DimScales/
> >
> >So, it seems that what you are asking for are Dimension Scales. Well,
> >the good news is that the HDF group is working on implementing this.
> >Once their job would be done, pytables can use them in a much more
> >portable way (i.e. compatible with all HDF5 apps).
>
> Yes, it seems to be the solution.
> Apparently, there's also an API :
> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/hdf5_hl/doc/ and perhaps stable.
>
> You know, I agre woth you,  "tables" could be (is) the right way to work
> with linked arrays even with structured grid .

No, perhaps tables is not the best way to solve this problem
(dimension scales seems a much better approach), but they can be a
solution in the interim.

> But, you know,  people of the structured grids world don't use to work
> like this.
> Do they all accept to change their mind ?

Well, these people are supposed to be very experienced in their work,
so I'm not going to change their mind ;)

> I can't wait for this feature in pytables.

Well, you know, you can help on this in several ways.

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