Ole Martin Bjørndalen

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Support for dataclasses?

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This is not something we need to support directly in the code, but it would be nice to have a documented way to create dataclasses from records. I think it...

Better tests for field parsing

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It's getting hard to keep track of all the special cases of field formats in different DBF files. We need better tests for these special cases.

Add support for reading from a (non-seekable) file object instead of a filename

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This will require internal changes to the library, and perhaps some API changes. Relevant issues and pull requests: * feature request: support non-seekable input files #5 * Streaming #14 *...

Replace test system

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The way tests are run is not working anymore.

This will make it easier to write tools to analyze files, and to add support to the library for reading from and open file or pipe.

String encoding is not thread safe in MIDI files

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A global variable `_charset` in `meta.py` is used to set the current encoding and then reset to its old value after use. Could `thread.local` be used here? At least we...

Updating the changelog

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@bast @rdoursenaud I've been manually updating `docs/changelog.rst` every time I make changes or merge a pull request. It would be silly to create a new pull request for this so...