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

[Andrew Straw]

I second the pytables recommendation, but if your simulations are in C
and want to avoid additional dependencies, you might simply just want to
write binary data direct to disk in your own format. Numpy's memmap
function can then use them directly if your data are in same-length
rows. Note that the term "rows" does not hint at what is actually
possible. For example, an n-dimensional array can be one "column" of
each such "row".

-Andrew

Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:06:35AM -0700, Charles Doutriaux wrote:
>   
>> For the data format I strongly recommend NetCDF and especially NetCDF4 
>> (allows for compression)
>>     
>
> Actually, why not hdf5, which seems to be used by NetCDF4, but is also 
> largely used across many scientific comunities, and very well supported
> under python (pytables)?
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Gaël
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