From d2f916e9fbe65428a33756d1af40ae2d2885d979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Ruebel <oruebel@lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:09:54 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] added inline comment

---
 src/hdmf/validate/validator.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/hdmf/validate/validator.py b/src/hdmf/validate/validator.py
index 5bd733f08..8bf0b8c07 100644
--- a/src/hdmf/validate/validator.py
+++ b/src/hdmf/validate/validator.py
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ def get_type(data):
     else:
         # Object has 'dtype' attribute, e.g., an h5py.Dataset
         if hasattr(data, 'dtype'):
+            # Compound data type
             if isinstance(data.dtype, list):
                 return [get_type(data[0][i]) for i in range(len(data.dtype))]
             # Variable length data type