Vitables incompatible with python-tables

[Jochen Schroeder]

The vitables version 2.1-1 which is included in 17.04 fails when starting with the exception:

Creating the Query results file...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/vitables/vitables/h5db/dbDoc.py", line 115, in openH5File
    h5file = tables.openFile(self.filepath, self.mode)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'openFile'

Please, if you think it is a bug, report it to developers.

File creation failed due to unknown reasons!
Please, have a look to the last error displayed in the logger. If you think it's a bug, please report it to developers.

This is due to python-tables 3.3.0-5 distributed with ubuntu which changes API and vitables is not compatible. This is fixed upstream see https://github.com/uvemas/ViTables/issues/54 for upstream bug report.

[Carlo Lobrano (c-lobrano)]

Bug confirmed upstream. Also a patch is already available https://github.com/uvemas/ViTables/commit/a7dc69420ef48d7e20e3ee46d3d9b730785531c7

[Johannes Lange (johannesulf)]

I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 and this still seems to be an issue. vitables 2.1-1 included with Ubuntu 17.10 is incompatible with the pytables 3.3.0.

Specifically, trying to open any file will result in a call to tables.isHDF5File. See this file here. /usr/share/vitables/vitables/h5db/dbsTreeModel.py

But isHDF5File is deprecated in pytables 3.3.0 and is now named is_hdf5_file.

https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/blob/6782047b9223897fd59ff4967d71d7fdfb474f16/tables/scripts/pt2to3.py

Consequently, vitables fails to verify whether a file is an HDF5 file and won't open it.

I believe to make vitables working again you need to switch to vitables 3.0. In the current state, it doesn't seem like vitables can open any hdf5 file.

[Kai Li (kai-li-jx)]

Still exist in Ubuntu 18.04.

[Felix Jaeckel (jaeckel)]

Still broken in Ubuntu 19.10. But easy enough to install with: pip install ViTables