MAINT: remove try/except block required for old mantid/h5py pin

src/scippnexus/field.py

@@ -217,19 +217,7 @@ def __getitem__(self, select: ScippIndex) -> Any | sc.Variable:
             if self.dataset.name.endswith('/depends_on') and variable.ndim == 0:
                 return DependsOn(parent=self.dataset.parent.name, value=variable.value)
         elif variable.values.flags["C_CONTIGUOUS"]:
-            # On versions of h5py prior to 3.2, a TypeError occurs in some cases
-            # where h5py cannot broadcast data with e.g. shape (20, 1) to a buffer
-            # of shape (20,). Note that broadcasting (1, 20) -> (20,) does work
-            # (see https://github.com/h5py/h5py/pull/1796).
-            # Therefore, we manually squeeze here.
-            # A pin of h5py<3.2 is currently required by Mantid and hence scippneutron
-            # (see https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues/1880#issuecomment-823223154)
-            # hence this workaround. Once we can use a more recent h5py with Mantid,
-            # this try/except can be removed.
-            try:
-                self.dataset.read_direct(variable.values, source_sel=index)
-            except TypeError:
-                variable.values = self.dataset[index].squeeze()
+            self.dataset.read_direct(variable.values, source_sel=index)
             if self.errors is not None:
                 self._load_variances(variable, index)
         else: