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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7372#issuecomment-1346254081,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7372,1346254081,IC_kwDOAMm_X85QPjUB,14808389,2022-12-12T10:42:16Z,2022-12-12T10:42:16Z,MEMBER,"this information is available in the encoding, i.e. `xr_initial.dummy_variable.encoding`.

It's not in the `attrs` because `xarray` used it to replace elements with the exactly same value as `_FillValue` with `np.nan`, making it redundant and quickly become outdated on operations. If you were to pass `mask_and_scale=False` to `open_dataset` you should see it in the `attrs`.

A different question would be whether or not to display the encoding in the HTML `repr`.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1486990254