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 `traittypes` extends the `traitlets` library with an implementation of trait types for numpy arrays, pandas dataframes, pandas series, xarray datasets and xarray dataarrays.
  - `traittypes` works around some limitations with numpy array comparison to only trigger change events when necessary.
- - `traittypes` also extends the traitlets API for adding custom validators to constained proposed values for the attribute.
+ - `traittypes` also extends the traitlets API for adding custom validators to constrain proposed values for the attribute.
 
 For a general introduction to `traitlets`, check out the [traitlets documentation](https://traitlets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).