html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1501#issuecomment-320278935,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1501,320278935,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMyMDI3ODkzNQ==,1217238,2017-08-04T15:29:32Z,2017-08-04T15:29:32Z,MEMBER,"I'm not 100% sure it will work properly here, but try installing the netCDF4-Python library: http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/ The default engine is scipy if you don't have netcdf4 installed. And unfortunately scipy is somewhat hampered by the lack of a single byte (ASCII) string dtype in NumPy, so it uses bytes for everything. We could (and perhaps should) potentially fix this in a wrapper on the xarray side. It was easy to ignore these issues back when most people were using Python 2 but that's no longer the case.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,247835797 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1501#issuecomment-320118530,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1501,320118530,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMyMDExODUzMA==,1217238,2017-08-03T23:42:16Z,2017-08-03T23:42:16Z,MEMBER,"1. Are you using python 2 or 3? 2. Are you using scipy or netCDF4 to read/write this data? (The default engine changes depending upon which you have installed) ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,247835797