BUG: HDFStore fails on py3 with pytables 3.0

[jreback]

we are not testing this now on travis

fails because pytables 3.0 reads back strings as bytes and
infer_dtype doesn't deal with this

[jreback]

need to implement this workaround: PyTables/PyTables#265

[hayd]

Is pytables 2.x still supported with this?

[jreback]

no...pytables 2 is essentially unaffected (and you can use pytables 3 to read back-compat as well)

having a problem?