[SciPy-user] Save a list of arrays

[Mathieu Dubois]

Ryan May wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Mathieu Dubois 
> <mathieu.dubois at limsi.fr <mailto:mathieu.dubois at limsi.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Pauli Virtanen wrote:
>     > Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:09:20 +0200, Mathieu Dubois kirjoitti:
>     >
>     >
>     >> [I have posted this message this morning but apparently it is stuck
>     >> somewhere - sorry for multi-posting]
>     >>
>     >> Hello,
>     >>
>     >> I would like to save a list of arrays (each one has a different
>     shape)
>     >> to a file.
>     >> For instance:
>     >>  >>> array1 = numpy.ones(2);
>     >>  >>> array2 = numpy.ones(5);
>     >>  >>> array3 = numpy.ones(1000);
>     >>  >>> list = [array1, array2, array3]
>     >>
>     >> As my arrays are huge (each one contains several thousands
>     values) I
>     >> would like a compressed file.
>     >> numpy.savez would be perfect (because it produces an archive of
>     binary
>     >> files) but unfortunately numpy.savez(list) doesn't work because
>     savez
>     >> needs each array individually.
>     >>
>     >> So what's the best way to do that?
>     >>
>     >
>     >
>     Hello Pauli,
>     > savez(filename, *list)
>     >
>     > The star is Python syntax for unpacking a sequence to arguments
>     Thank you for the tip this opens interesting possibilities.
>
>     Do you know something that works with named arguments (keyword
>     arguments)?
>     This would allow to set the name of the array in the archive file (by
>     default it's 'arr_0.npy').
>
>
> A dictionary and two stars:
>
> arrays = {'a':a, 'b':b, 'c':c}
> savez(filename, **arrays)
Hello Ryan,

Thank you very much this is exactly what I wanted to do. Python is very 
powerful.

Thanks also to Lev and Gabriel but using PyTable and HDF5 would have 
forced me to changed all my scripts...

Kind regards,
Mathieu