Revert "normalize in codec_pipeline"

This reverts commit 234431cd6efb661c53e2a832a0e4ea4dca772c1b.

Author: dcherian

src/zarr/core/codec_pipeline.py

@@ -35,22 +35,6 @@
 U = TypeVar("U")
 
 
-def normalize_slices(
-    idxr: tuple[int | slice, ...], shape: tuple[int, ...]
-) -> tuple[int | slice, ...]:
-    # replace slice objects with stop==None with size
-    out = []
-    for i, size in zip(idxr, shape, strict=False):
-        if not isinstance(i, slice):
-            out.append(i)
-            continue
-        if i.step not in [1, None] or i.start not in [0, None]:
-            out.append(i)
-            continue
-        out.append(slice(i.start, i.stop if i.stop is not None else size, i.step))
-    return tuple(out)
-
-
 def _unzip2(iterable: Iterable[tuple[T, U]]) -> tuple[list[T], list[U]]:
     out0: list[T] = []
     out1: list[U] = []
@@ -295,10 +279,7 @@ async def read_batch(
                 chunk_array_batch, batch_info, strict=False
             ):
                 if chunk_array is not None:
-                    normalized_selection = normalize_slices(
-                        chunk_selection, out[out_selection].shape
-                    )
-                    tmp = chunk_array[normalized_selection]
+                    tmp = chunk_array[chunk_selection]
                     if drop_axes != ():
                         tmp = tmp.squeeze(axis=drop_axes)
                     out[out_selection] = tmp
@@ -341,9 +322,7 @@ def _merge_chunk_array(
                     for idx in range(chunk_spec.ndim)
                 )
                 chunk_value = chunk_value[item]
-
-        normalized_selection = normalize_slices(chunk_selection, chunk_value.shape)
-        chunk_array[normalized_selection] = chunk_value
+        chunk_array[chunk_selection] = chunk_value
         return chunk_array
 
     async def write_batch(