From b0ef6c36a600286cb4a4974fca081ad772f09283 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri Papadopoulos
 <3234522+DimitriPapadopoulos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:02:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Single startswith() call instead of multiple ones

It's faster and probably more readable.
---
 zarr/_storage/store.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/zarr/_storage/store.py b/zarr/_storage/store.py
index 8daedae48f..9cd07bba0b 100644
--- a/zarr/_storage/store.py
+++ b/zarr/_storage/store.py
@@ -221,9 +221,8 @@ def _validate_key(self, key: str):
             )
 
         if (
-            not key.startswith("data/")
-            and (not key.startswith("meta/"))
-            and (not key == "zarr.json")
+            not key.startswith(("data/", "meta/"))
+            and key != "zarr.json"
             # TODO: Possibly allow key == ".zmetadata" too if we write a
             #       consolidated metadata spec corresponding to this?
         ):