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/2044#issuecomment-379880131,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2044,379880131,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3OTg4MDEzMQ==,1217238,2018-04-09T20:16:25Z,2018-04-09T20:16:25Z,MEMBER,"OK, this is a relatively new feature for netCDF4-Python (https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/pull/597), but I agree that it's one we should support in xarray. Interestingly, it looks like it will be the default behavior as of the next netCDF4-Python release (https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/770).

So at this point, I suppose we could just wait. Or if you like, we could backport this behavior in xarray to also support older versions of netCDF4-Python.

The logic for writing attributes with netCDF4-Python in xarray can be found here:
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/master/xarray/backends/netCDF4_.py#L346=L350

and here:
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/master/xarray/backends/netCDF4_.py#L402=L405","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,312633077