Added xxhash dependency (#1289)

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chore: update pre-commit hooks (#1290)

updates:
- [github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit: v0.6.4 → v0.6.5](astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit@v0.6.4...v0.6.5)

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chore: update pre-commit hooks (#1247)

* chore: update pre-commit hooks

updates:
- [github.com/psf/black-pre-commit-mirror: 24.4.2 → 24.8.0](psf/black-pre-commit-mirror@24.4.2...24.8.0)
- [github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit: v0.5.0 → v0.6.2](astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit@v0.5.0...v0.6.2)
- [github.com/asottile/pyupgrade: v3.16.0 → v3.17.0](asottile/pyupgrade@v3.16.0...v3.17.0)
- [github.com/macisamuele/language-formatters-pre-commit-hooks: v2.13.0 → v2.14.0](macisamuele/language-formatters-pre-commit-hooks@v2.13.0...v2.14.0)

* follow ruff's advice

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fix: explicit 'import awkward' needed to write NumPy strings (#1266)

chore: update pre-commit hooks (#1240)

* chore: update pre-commit hooks

updates:
- [github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit: v0.4.10 → v0.5.0](astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit@v0.4.10...v0.5.0)

* style: pre-commit fixes

* turn off the new checks

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chore: declare support for Python 3.12 and switch to testing NumPy < 2 (

#1236)

chore: update pre-commit hooks (#1216)

updates:
- [github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit: v0.4.3 → v0.4.7](astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit@v0.4.3...v0.4.7)

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feat: Implement read coalescing algorithm (#1198)

* Implement read coalescing algorithm

Tuning to be investigated

* style: pre-commit fixes

* Rename test file

* style: pre-commit fixes

* Ruff

* Drop usage of stateful file handle

* Use keyword args for start and end in fs.cat_file

* Add configuration options

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fix: don't let uproot.update mess up the TFile fVersion (#1212)

fix: bug in PR #1189's 'ignore_duplicates' implementation (#1209)