Andrew S. Rosen

@cicdw: Brilliant edge case! Yes, you are absolutely right. I don't think there is anything wrong with truncating the representation to a maximum length (with a `...` afterwards). I still...

> The pedantic side of me worries that str(value)[:N] will still have client-side edge cases with performance in actually computing the string and I tend to avoid optimizing for display...

Hi @fxcoudert! Just to check --- was this meant for pymatgen or for https://github.com/materialsproject/api? I want to make sure you get the quickest feedback possible. CC @tschaume in case it's...

The all-knowing Patrick has spoken!!

Can confirm `VASP_VDW_KERNEL_DIR` does nothing. It should be removed until it does something so as to not confused users.

@JaGeo --- While perhaps not the _perfect_ solution, it sounds like the `MontyStore` in `maggma` is very close in spirit to what you are looking for. See [here](https://github.com/materialsproject/maggma/blob/0e058443d1018b4ab714929c68bf9b9f37f30089/src/maggma/stores/mongolike.py#L879-L895).

This feature request is likely partially dependent on https://github.com/materialsproject/maggma/issues/832.

Pydantic 3?!?! I am still traumatized...

It's due to the PyTorch incompatability. Not much you can do there except to split up the tests so you don't have both packages installed in the same env.

@tomdemeyere: FYI that something seems broken with the Espresso output reader and the dev version of ASE as noted [here](https://github.com/Quantum-Accelerators/quacc/actions/runs/12460509999/job/34778839114?pr=2384). I'm not quite sure what yet. But just keeping you...