{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"more-binary-extensions-skipped","canonical_anchor":"more-binary-extensions-skipped","heading":"Data files like .parquet and .npy are now treated as binary","tier":"notice","area":"File Reading","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/more-binary-extensions-skipped","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### Data files like .parquet and .npy are now treated as binary\n\nClaude Code now treats .parquet, .feather, .npy, .npz and .pickle files as binary instead of reading them as text\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code keeps a list of file extensions that it treats as binary, meaning files that are not readable text. These extensions were added to that list:\n\n- `.parquet`\n\n- `.feather`\n\n- `.npy`\n\n- `.npz`\n\n- `.pickle`\n\n**Why**\n\nThese common data-science file formats are no longer read as if they were text.\n\n- Area: File Reading\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}