@Dave-Allured coordinates are a bad example as xarray by default will remove the attribute and instead present a special `coords` property with a python dictionary (mapping data structure) with references to the actual data variables.
Assuming that it won't do the above, this is the behavior I've observed: `T:coordinates = "lon lat" ;` will be a python string `"lon lat"` `string T:coordinates = "lon lat" ;` will be a python string `"lon lat"` `string T:coordinates = "lon", "lat" ;` will be a python list with strings `["lon", "lat"]` A python list with a single string `["lon lat"]` appears to be encoded as a char array: `T:coordinates = "lon lat" ;` I don't know how much of this is xarray doing magic, or the result of the python-netCDF4 library. I must admit that the last example would be very nice for the enumerated values (e.g. flag defs) Do you or anyone else know what MATLAB does? -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/141#issuecomment-410377827
