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/838#issuecomment-375755201,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/838,375755201,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3NTc1NTIwMQ==,26440884,2018-03-23T18:12:26Z,2018-03-23T18:12:26Z,NONE,"Something maybe of interest. I recently converted some tools we have to do the above from Python 2 to 3. When the files were read in the byte chars were not converted to strings. I couldn't actually get this to work on the xarray side and had to loop through the DataFrame columns with apply(.decode(""utf-8"")) to decode them properly. I'm assuming this might be in the NetCDF4 library, but not 100% sure. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,152040420