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122776511 MDU6SXNzdWUxMjI3NzY1MTE= 681 to_netcdf on Python 3: "string" qualifier on attributes 2443309 closed 0     8 2015-12-17T16:56:59Z 2016-06-16T08:27:33Z 2016-03-01T21:49:36Z MEMBER      

I've had a number of people ask me about this and I think we can figure out a way to fix this. In python3, variabile attributes in files written with Dataset.to_netcdf end up with the "string" type qualifier shown below. This causes all sorts of problems with other netcdf programs. Is this related to https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/485?

``` bash PRISM$ ncdump -h prism_historical_conus4k.189501-201510.nc netcdf prism_historical_conus4k.189501-201510 { dimensions: latitude = 621 ; longitude = 1405 ; time = 1450 ; variables: double latitude(latitude) ; double longitude(longitude) ; int64 time(time) ; string time:units = "days since 1895-01-01 00:00:00" ; string time:calendar = "proleptic_gregorian" ; float prcp(time, latitude, longitude) ; string prcp:units = "mm" ; string prcp:description = "precipitation " ; string prcp:long_name = "precipitation" ;

// global attributes: string :title = "PRISM: Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model" ; } ```

cc @lizaclark

 
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