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/6781#issuecomment-1265999976,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6781,1265999976,IC_kwDOAMm_X85LdaBo,2448579,2022-10-03T20:32:05Z,2022-10-03T20:32:05Z,MEMBER,I think this is now fixed by #7085 (thanks @ghislainp ),"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1303371718
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6781#issuecomment-1183325505,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6781,1183325505,IC_kwDOAMm_X85GiB1B,2448579,2022-07-13T14:52:19Z,2022-07-13T14:52:19Z,MEMBER,It is checking to see if we can decode it as a time variable,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1303371718
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6781#issuecomment-1183323527,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6781,1183323527,IC_kwDOAMm_X85GiBWH,57914115,2022-07-13T14:50:43Z,2022-07-13T14:50:43Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"I was wondering why the units attribute is parsed this way in the first place ? 
It seems that this attribute is converted to a Python object (a list), is it xarray that does this or the binding of netcdf4 ? 

If it's xarray, wouldn't it be better to just not parse it ? ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1303371718
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6781#issuecomment-1183298330,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6781,1183298330,IC_kwDOAMm_X85Gh7Ma,2448579,2022-07-13T14:29:06Z,2022-07-13T14:29:06Z,MEMBER,"I guess we could take a PR to change
``` python
if ""units"" in attrs and attrs[""units""] in TIME_UNITS:
```
to
``` python
if ""units"" in attrs and isinstance(attrs[""units""], str) and attrs[""units""] in TIME_UNITS:
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1303371718
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6781#issuecomment-1183244993,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6781,1183244993,IC_kwDOAMm_X85GhuLB,57914115,2022-07-13T13:45:20Z,2022-07-13T13:45:20Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"> @antscloud As a workaround you could use keyword argument `decode_cf=False` in the call to `xr.open_dataset`. After fixing the `units` attribute to some reasonable value you can call `ds = xr.decode_cf(ds)`.

Thank you, i'll do this. One could just loop over variables attributes and replace `[]` by an empty string in this particular case","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1303371718
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6781#issuecomment-1183218215,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6781,1183218215,IC_kwDOAMm_X85Ghnon,5821660,2022-07-13T13:22:16Z,2022-07-13T13:22:16Z,MEMBER,@antscloud As a workaround you could use keyword argument `decode_cf=False` in the call to `xr.open_dataset`. After fixing the `units` attribute to some reasonable value you can call `ds = xr.decode_cf(ds)`. ,"{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1303371718