Chris Barnes

Sorry, just to clarify - does `--in-place` raise nonzero for unformatted files, but still format them anyway? And that's different behaviour to being unable to format a file? If you...

Note some weirdness around handling of intersection with edges in that workaround.

Agree on only supporting strings, much easier for everyone.

Strong preference for documenting/ annotating that keys must be strings (and that values must be json-serialisable), and not stringifying non-string keys (which would be unpredictable for different types). JavaScript gets...

Maybe a couple of versions of noisy deprecation warnings, then? Even if it never actually gets patched out until v3.

> Could you tell me what is the exact difference between 'w' and 'x' mode for ZipStore creation? These are related to python's [`open` arguments](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#open). `w` will create a file...

Unlike most stores, the ZipStore obeys normal python file-opening semantics. Just like a python file (or zipfile), , the file is automatically closed when the object is garbage collected, but...

If your data are on an irregular grid (or for any other reason you need to look up values by something other than the index in the array), you'll need...

While there isn't (and probably shouldn't be, for simplicity purposes) a mechanism for storing the default access mode on individual containers/ groups/ arrays, would changing the global default mode to...

> We did try pre-allocating an enormous array that was much bigger than our real datasets could ever grow to. This did sort out the timing issue, but made us...