Drop pytables < 3.4.2

Author: h-vetinari

ci/circle-27-compat.yaml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies:
   - numpy=1.12.0
   - openpyxl=2.5.5
   - psycopg2
-  - pytables=3.2.2
+  - pytables=3.4.2
   - python-dateutil=2.5.0
   - python=2.7*
   - pytz=2013b

ci/requirements-optional-conda.txt

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ numexpr>=2.6.2
 openpyxl=2.5.5
 pyarrow
 pymysql
-pytables
+pytables>=3.4.2
 pytest-cov
 pytest-xdist
 s3fs

doc/source/install.rst

@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Optional Dependencies
   version. Version 0.28.2 or higher.
 * `SciPy <http://www.scipy.org>`__: miscellaneous statistical functions, Version 0.14.0 or higher
 * `xarray <http://xarray.pydata.org>`__: pandas like handling for > 2 dims, needed for converting Panels to xarray objects. Version 0.7.0 or higher is recommended.
-* `PyTables <http://www.pytables.org>`__: necessary for HDF5-based storage. Version 3.0.0 or higher required, Version 3.2.1 or higher highly recommended.
+* `PyTables <http://www.pytables.org>`__: necessary for HDF5-based storage. Version 3.4.2 or higher required.
 * `Feather Format <https://github.com/wesm/feather>`__: necessary for feather-based storage, version 0.3.1 or higher.
 * `Apache Parquet <https://parquet.apache.org/>`__, either `pyarrow <http://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/>`__ (>= 0.4.1) or `fastparquet <https://fastparquet.readthedocs.io/en/latest>`__ (>= 0.0.6) for parquet-based storage. The `snappy <https://pypi.org/project/python-snappy>`__ and `brotli <https://pypi.org/project/brotlipy>`__ are available for compression support.
 * `SQLAlchemy <http://www.sqlalchemy.org>`__: for SQL database support. Version 0.8.1 or higher recommended. Besides SQLAlchemy, you also need a database specific driver. You can find an overview of supported drivers for each SQL dialect in the `SQLAlchemy docs <http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/index.html>`__. Some common drivers are:

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt

@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ If installed, we now require:
 +-----------------+-----------------+----------+---------------+
 | numexpr         | 2.6.2           |          | :issue:`21242`|
 +-----------------+-----------------+----------+---------------+
+| pytables        | 3.4.2           |          | :issue:`21242`|
++-----------------+-----------------+----------+---------------+
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.api_breaking.interval_values: