Re: [SQLObject] storing objects that have matrices as attributes

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

Ryan Krauss wrote:
> Maybe an example would make this clearer.  What if I want to store a 
> collection of objects with the following properties:
> entry1.input='a1'
> entry1.output='j2'
> entry1.datafile=['file1','file2','file3']
> entry1.data1=[1.2,1.47,3.56,....]
> entry1.data2=[-1.5,-19.5,35.5,....]
> 
> And what if data1 and data2 are Numeric arrays/matrices (or from 
> numarray)?  Can SQLObject store a collection of such objects?

You can use PickleCol for this, so long as its okay that the data is 
opaque to the database and to queries.  Or you could create a 
_set_data1() method that inserts the values into another table, and 
_get_data1() that retrieves them.

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