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Add VLArrayCol / support variable length arrays in IsDescription
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Dear @maxnoe thank you for your interest in PyTables. Personally I have not so much time to dedicate to PyTables in this period so I can't promise anything. Anyway if you want to submit a PR to add this feature (including a minimal testing) I will be happy to review and merge. |
@avalentino I am also interested in supporting loading from HDF5 a table like this
and I think awkward-array could be used to implement this |
Dear @HealthyPear |
Unfortunately not an expert... I was thinking of starting this as a very complex exercise from scratch and create a new plugin for awkward for HDF5 (much like awkward-pandas), but there is also the alternative to add what's missing here (less code rewriting I guess...) To my understanding at least one ingredient would be this |
Support for storing variable length arrays is currently missing in pytables.
From the hdf5 documentation, this should in principle be possible.
What would be needed to imlement a
VLArrayCol
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