Whatsnew for v1.11.0 - #2250
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| text = content_object.readlines() | ||
| if not text[-1].endswith('\n'): | ||
| text[-1] += '\n' | ||
| category_text.extend(text) |
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Automatically fix troublesome contributions with no trailing new line ... otherwise multiple contribution entries are rendered on the same line.
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For example, without this fix in this release we'd end up with the following ...
Iris 1.11 Features
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* If available, display the ``STASH`` code instead of ``unknown / (unknown)`` when printing cubes
with no ``standard_name`` and no ``units``.
* Support for saving to netCDF with data packing has been added.* The coordinate system :class:`iris.coord_systems.LambertAzimuthalEqualArea` has been added with NetCDF saving support.
... instead of this.
| with a scalar masked constant data payload. | ||
| * Fixed a bug where :func:`iris.util._is_circular` would erroneously return false | ||
| when coordinate values are decreasing. | ||
| * When saving to NetCDF, the existing behaviour of writing string attributes as ASCII has been |
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This is a very long and quite unusual whatsnew entry. It takes a lot of time to say very little at all, and I'm really not a fan of the unprecedented PR link in the entry. Options...
- leave it as it is
- remove it entirely
- only keep the first sentence of the entry.
I favour the last of those options - it says about the same amount of very little in a single sentence, which at least means we are acknowledging that a change has been made.
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i'm with @dkillick i think that
When saving to NetCDF, the existing behaviour of writing string attributes as ASCII has been maintained across all versions of netCDF4-python
is sufficient information; the rest of the point is a bit lost on me, and I implemented part of the change
I would change all to known as all is an all encompassing term
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looks good to go to me, thanks @bjlittle last call for comments........ |
Proposed
whatsnewforv1.11.0release.