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Zarr v3 spec mentions "fill_value": null in an example

Open rouault opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/blob/214ba9b6326aadcf406a69a1a7268a7055cea185/docs/v3/core/v3.0.rst?plain=1#L765 is "fill_value": null. My understanding is that this is not allowed in Zarr V3

rouault avatar Feb 04 '25 09:02 rouault

That example introduces a custom datetime dtype, which could be nullable, in which case null would be a valid element from that dtype. So I don't think this goes against the spec, but this example should be clarified.

d-v-b avatar Feb 04 '25 09:02 d-v-b