Allow truncation of extreme data values during float to int32 conversion

Author: tskisner

flacarray/__init__.py

@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@
 # Set the log level
 logging.basicConfig(level=log_level)
 
-__version__ = "0.2.2"
+__version__ = "0.2.3"
 
 from .array import FlacArray

flacarray/libflacarray/utils.c

@@ -239,10 +239,13 @@ int float32_to_int32(
         } else {
             // We are using a pre-defined quanta per stream.
             squanta = quanta[istream];
-            if (squanta < min_quanta) {
-                // The requested quanta is too small
-                return ERROR_CONVERT_TYPE;
-            }
+            // Commented out, since there might be times when the
+            // user wants to truncate the peaks of the data.
+            //-----------------------------------------------------
+            // if (squanta < min_quanta) {
+            //     // The requested quanta is too small
+            //     return ERROR_CONVERT_TYPE;
+            // }
         }
 
         if (squanta == 0) {
@@ -313,10 +316,13 @@ int float64_to_int32(
         } else {
             // We are using a pre-defined quanta per stream.
             squanta = quanta[istream];
-            if (squanta < min_quanta) {
-                // The requested quanta is too small
-                return ERROR_CONVERT_TYPE;
-            }
+            // Commented out, since there might be times when the
+            // user wants to truncate the peaks of the data.
+            //-----------------------------------------------------
+            // if (squanta < min_quanta) {
+            //     // The requested quanta is too small
+            //     return ERROR_CONVERT_TYPE;
+            // }
         }
 
         if (squanta == 0) {

pyproject.toml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ build-backend = "mesonpy"
 
 [project]
 name = "flacarray"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 description = "FLAC Compression of Arrays"
 readme = "README.md"
 maintainers = [