psalvy
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6 years ago Hi, Yes, we are aware of this, along with #3. Further support for better integration is planned. In the meantime, we wanted to provide pytfa in a usable form, and although admittedly the current interface for thermodynamics data is clunky, the package should work for basic use cases.
While a compressed pickle is not a bad way to distribute data. It's not very future proof. You might consider creating database models with SQLAlchemy and storing everything in a SQLite database. I'm happy to help if you have any questions about that.