Nezar Abdennur

Closing without a reproducible example. Feel free to re-open if you can provide one.

Apologies for the inconvenience. The ftp server was constantly going down for different reasons and has been too cumbersome to maintain since changing institutions. Luckily, NSF has generously provided us...

Closing this as it was resolved. The suggestion to specify alternative file drivers is already supported, either (1) by creating a `Cooler` object from a pre-existing `h5py.File` or `Group` or...

Alternative separators will be supported in the next minor version with #398, so I will finally close this.

Marking as resolved. Please re-open if you are still encountering issues.

> Which library do you envision being installed by default? For now, let's keep bbi the default. > updating the section on bigWig under docs/genomic would be helpful The docs...

Very late response, but you are right that this is not a thread-safe implementation. However, if you take a look at the standard library [queue](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.11/Lib/queue.py) module, you can see that...

There must have been some difference in the filtering parameters for balancing between the first time you ran it and now. I don't think any of the default thresholds changed...

I don't think the import is the problem, just the `Lock()` [instantiation](https://github.com/open2c/cooler/blob/a67598c045375d73d3928e86b04f91c35fa650a6/src/cooler/parallel.py#L42) that lambda doesn't support. Could you try wrapping that in a try block and set it to `None`...

Yeah, that would need guarding if it works. `if self.use_lock and lock is not None:` But that tooling is only used internally inside `balance` anyway.