PyTables

Install

    $ pip install tables

Create a PyTables file

Creating a PyTables file from scratch.

    import tables

    h5 = tables.open_file('detector.h5', mode = 'w', title = 'Test file')

Crate a new group

    group = h5file.create_group("/", 'detector', 'Detector information')

Do other amazing things!

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Full documentation

Videos

These are the videos of a series dedicated to introduce the main features of PyTables in a visual and easy to grasp manner. More videos will be made available with the time:

• HDF5 is for Lovers, SciPy 2012 Tutorial: a beginer’s introduction to PyTables and HDF5.
• PyTables, part I: Introduction: HDF5 file creation, the object tree, homogeneous array storage, natural naming, working with attributes.
• PyTables, part II: Working with tables: Creation of tables with multidimensional and nested columns, and how to efficiently query them.

Presentations

Here are the slides of some presentations about PyTables that you may find useful:

• HDF5 is for Lovers, SciPy 2012 Tutorial, July 2012, Austin, TX, USA, slides (pdf), video, exercises, solutions, and repository.
• An on-disk binary data container. Talk given at the Austin Python Meetup, Austin, TX, USA (May 2012).
• Large Data Analysis with Python. Seminar given at the German Neuroinformatics Node, Munich, Germany (November 2010).
• Highly Efficient Computations In Python: Well Beyond NumPy. Tutorial given at EuroSciPy 2010 conference in Paris, France (July 2010).
• Starving CPUs (and coping with that in PyTables). Seminar given at FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, The Netherlands (September 2009).
• On The Data Access Issue (or Why Modern CPUs Are Starving). Keynote presented at EuroSciPy 2009 conference in Leipzig, Germany (July 2009).
• An Overview of Future Improvements to OPSI. Informal talk given at the THG headquarters in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (October 2007).
• Finding Needles in a Huge DataStack. Talk given at the EuroPython 2006 Conference, held at CERN, Genève, Switzerland (July 2006).
• Presentation given at the “HDF Workshop 2005”, held at San Francisco, USA (December 2005).
• I and II Workshop in Free Software and Scientific Computing given at the Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain (October 2004). In Catalan.
• Presentation given at the “SciPy Workshop 2004”, held at Caltech, Pasadena, USA (September 2004).
• Slides of presentation given at EuroPython Conference in Charleroi, Belgium (June 2003).
• Presentation for the “iParty5” held at Castelló, Spain (May 2003). In Spanish.
• Talk on PyTables given at the PyCon 2003 Convention held at Washington, USA (March 203).

Reports

• White Paper on OPSI indexes, explaining the powerful new indexing engine in PyTables Pro.
• Performance study on how the new object tree cache introduced in PyTables 1.2 can accelerate the opening of files with a large number of objects, while being quite less memory hungry.
• Paper version of the presentation at PyCon2003.