Jon Niehof

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We have a number of data files (e.g. the neural net connections as in #603) which are installed with the SpacePy library. In most places these are loaded by identifying...

technical-debt

[get_omni](https://spacepy.github.io/autosummary/spacepy.omni.get_omni.html#spacepy.omni.get_omni) allows the specification of a database, with the default being the Qin-Denton data based on OMNI1 and the other main supported option being the OMNI2. Unfortunately the OMNI2 data...

enhancement

Right now spacepy.rc is opened read/write in case there are defaults that need to be written. This shouldn't be necessary and can cause problems in a managed environment. Two possible...

There's some gnarly 2010-era code in the `assoc` method of `PoPPy` that doesn't work with current numpy "The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous."...

bug

The pybats trace2d functions currently extrapolate for one grid point outside the given domain. This means the streamline can leave and reenter the domain in a nonphysical way. There's a...

enhancement

There's some weirdness with large Ticktock objects instantiated with ISO strings in some Python/numpy combinations. @drsteve confirmed this with Python 3.6 and numpy 1.13.3, still a problem in numpy 1.18,...

toHDF5 fails when including an array scalar and compressing data. The problem is obscured because the `create_dataset` call is wrapped in an unconditional `try/except` that appears to assume the problem...

We currently ship the latest tai-utc.dat with spacepy, and install it on first import if .spacepy doesn't exist. The user is expected to maintain this with toolbox.update. However, I can...

enhancement

(Before anybody panics: the title of this issue is to indicate we'll close it when Python 2 support is removed, not that this is an immediate goal!) Python 2.7 will...

[git has decided](https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/) to move away from `master` as the default branch name as part of the broader reconsideration of terminology in tech and its possible negative implications. [github is...

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