[SciPy-user] Real-time plotting and data storage format questions

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:19:13AM -0700, Rick Wagner wrote:
>    Also, to clarify the PyTables aspect, I think HDF5 is useful, and PyTables
>    provides a convenient Python API to HDF5 data. However, I would not
>    suggest using PyTables for storing the data, unless you were writing
>    everything in Python.

+1. Use HDF5, but do not use anything pytables-specific (though in my
experience, this is quite easy to avoid, it is even what you do naturaly,
if you are not trying to make fancy stuff).

My 2 cents,

Gaël