Possible dead code with encoding workaround on C files

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The Genomedata format for storing large-scale functional genomics data.

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Possible dead code with encoding workaround on C files #59

Closed EricR86 closed 1 year ago

EricR86 commented 3 years ago

Is this issue still present with the new C extension architecture?

_Originally posted by @michaelmhoffman in https://github.com/hoffmangroup/genomedata/pull/58#discussion_r647749546_

Originally C source files were compiled using Distutils class wrappers and treated like scripts. Some distutil machinery is likely still common but this might not be an issue still, especially on Python 3 only.