[Nexus] 2D character arrays in python binding?

[Carlos Pascual Izarra]

Hello,
After reading the lists and the python binding source code I am still not 
sure: is it possible to write 2D character arrays with the python binding? 
(other than manually converting the array to "uint8" and back when reading)

I've tried doing:

{{{
filenames=['bar1','longerbar2','bar3']
...
f.makedata('filenames','char',[3,32])
f.opendata('filenames')
f.putdata(filenames)
...
}}}

but I get:
{{{
ValueError: Expected character data: foo.h5(entry/data/filenames)
}}}


I also tried putting the data row by row with putslab, replacing the putdata 
line with:
{{{
for i in range(3): f.putslab(filenames[i],[i,0],[1,32])
}}}

In which case it does not raise an exception, but:
a) it stores the data using dtype=uint8  
b) It stores garbage from contiguous memory (i.e. it does not pad the strings 
to fill the given shape)

Cheers,

Carlos Pascual