Yan Wong

Yes, very niche I know! For my use case I don't need it as I've found that I can simply declare a branch length like `((:123.4)A,(B,C));`. So no urgent need...

(NB, currently I'm doing this in Perl using https://metacpan.org/pod/File::ReadBackwards)

OK, thanks for responding. I'll keep on using the perl library for the moment then.

For what it's worth, we are trying to move away from HDF5 and have started to use zarr (see e.g. http://alimanfoo.github.io/2016/04/14/to-hdf5-and-beyond.html). The author of zarr works just across the room...

OK, thanks. Happy for you to close this then.

Although maybe a line in the documentation would be helpful...

OK, changed to height and age. I left a default for both there, as this is not an obvious thing to be able to do, so having an example is...

Here is a plot to show the effect of running that versus the normal simplify. It looks like I was wrong when chatting to @petrelharp : on standard tree sequences...

How do we load from a URL easily? We marked https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/issues/1566 as low priority, but maybe this now moves it up the stack?

Ah, yes, of course. I forgot about `requests` not being allowed. I guess it would also be useful to be able to display SVGs or Matplotlib output, which is going...