Return the path as an opened :class:`pandas.HDFStore` object. Note that the
        :class:`HDFStore` constructor unconditionally prints messages to
        standard output when opening and closing files, so use of this
        function will pollute your program’s standard output. The *kwargs* are
        forwarded to the :class:`HDFStore` constructor.

def as_hdf_store (self, mode='r', **kwargs):
        """Return the path as an opened :class:`pandas.HDFStore` object. Note that the
        :class:`HDFStore` constructor unconditionally prints messages to
        standard output when opening and closing files, so use of this
        function will pollute your program’s standard output. The *kwargs* are
        forwarded to the :class:`HDFStore` constructor.

        """
        from pandas import HDFStore
        return HDFStore (text_type (self), mode=mode, **kwargs)