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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/589#issuecomment-143183227 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/589 143183227 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE0MzE4MzIyNw== 950575 2015-09-25T10:29:59Z 2015-09-25T10:29:59Z CONTRIBUTOR

Hi @shoyer I read the docs and I think it is pretty good. I am just not comfortable with the word encoding? That might confuse Pythonistas. Also decode_cf=True means a lot more than missing data (_FillValue), packing/unpacking (scale_factor/add_offset) [1] and dates parsing (which we inherited from the terrible COARDS but that is not the point here).

In fact the first two are netCDF features older than CF and they are described in the NetCDF User's Guide (sometimes called the "NUG") [2].

It is ugly but why not decode_nug=True?

[1] http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.6/build/cf-conventions.html#terminology

[2] http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf.html#Attribute-Conventions

 
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