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29010167 MDU6SXNzdWUyOTAxMDE2Nw== 57 Support variable length strings in NETCDF4 files 1217238 closed 0     0 2014-03-08T00:38:40Z 2014-05-12T05:56:28Z 2014-05-12T05:56:28Z MEMBER      

It is actually possible to create variable length strings in NETCDF4-python if you set dtype=str (yes, the python type) and fill the values as object ndarray. We should support this sort of serialization in addition to the serialization as higher dimensional arrays of character strings.

 
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