Merge pull request #147 from 36000/make_table_optional

[ENH] make table optional

.github/workflows/docbuild.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install .[dev]
+          python -m pip install .[dev,tables]
       - name: Build docs
         run: |
           cd doc

afqinsight/h5io.py

@@ -36,9 +36,19 @@
 """
 
 import numpy as np
-import tables
 import warnings
 from scipy import sparse
+from dipy.utils.optpkg import optional_package
+
+
+tables_msg = (
+    "To use AFQ-Insight's h5io classes, you will need to have tables "
+    "installed. You can do this by installing afqinsight with `pip install "
+    "afqinsight[tables]`, or by separately installing these packages with "
+    "`pip install tables`."
+)
+tables, HAS_TABLES, _ = optional_package("tables", trip_msg=tables_msg)
+
 
 try:
     import pandas as pd

setup.cfg

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ install_requires =
     seaborn==0.13.0
     scikit-learn==1.2.1
     sklearn_pandas>=2.0.0
-    tables==3.9.1
     tqdm
     statsmodels==0.14.0
     copt==0.9.1
@@ -50,6 +49,8 @@ include_package_data = True
 packages = find:
 
 [options.extras_require]
+tables = 
+    tables==3.9.1
 torch =
     torch
 tf =
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ maint =
     rapidfuzz
 
 all =
+    %(tables)s
     %(torch)s
     %(tf)s
     %(dev)s