(was added 2 years ago and did not turn out to be useful.
Also causing problems on some compilers, eg on theta)

throw an error for missing variables and multiple-defined
 variables if variables are passed to the reader interface

explicitly define the stride for numpy arrays

allow reading single source rank in py module

add more class methods to py interface, whitespace

allows suprressing the "Read [...] variables ... " stdout logs

always compile a non-mpi version of the python library, which can be loaded by setting the GENERICIO_NO_MPI env variable