ENH: chunks=None

[alimanfoo]

Add support for chunks=None, which sets chunk shape to array shape?

[jakirkham]

Would this make it a change in current behavior as it is already None?

Edit: Would it make sense to have the current behavior go through True instead. ( https://github.com/alimanfoo/zarr/issues/107 )

[alimanfoo]

I think I want to avoid changing the current behaviour. I haven't thought this through thoroughly, but I was wondering about setting the default to chunks=True, which means auto-chunking (which is the current behaviour). Then if the user explicitly states chunks=None that means chunk shape equals array shape.

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[jakirkham]

To be fair, I do think this proposal results in a better default.

Just thinking of the right way to deprecate this. Normally adding a warning about chunks=None would be ok, but it is the default too. So that could get really noisy. Maybe using a decorator that checks for chunks being explicitly set or doing some introspection of the arguments passed in.

[alimanfoo]

FWIW I think it would be OK to just change the default to chunks=True and include some documentation about the change in the docstrings and release notes. I don't think anyone will have been explicitly passing chunks=None before now. The behaviour when no chunks argument is specified by the user (autochunking) will be unchanged.

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