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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2149#issuecomment-389885258 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2149 389885258 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM4OTg4NTI1OA== 6213168 2018-05-17T14:25:24Z 2018-05-17T14:25:24Z MEMBER
  1. this is limited to dtype=S1. There's auto tests implemented for dtype=f4 and dtype=int16 (https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/master/xarray/tests/test_backends.py#L729-L756), and those work fine. ds = xarray.Dataset({'x': [1, 2]}) ds.to_netcdf('test.nc', encoding={'x': {'dtype': 'f4'}})
  2. the bug can be worked around by setting the dtype on the variable directly - for which there is an automated test specific for S1 (https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/master/xarray/tests/test_backends.py#L333-L343): ds = xarray.Dataset({'x': ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']}) ds['x'].encoding['dtype'] = 'S1' ds.to_netcdf('test.nc')
 
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