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cdms2 (NetCDF) maximum dimension name length is 256 #158

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doutriaux1 opened this issue Aug 16, 2017 · 1 comment

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doutriaux1 commented Aug 16, 2017

import cdms2
import MV2

a = MV2.ones((12,12))
ax = cdms2.createAxis(MV2.arange(12))
ax.id = "1234567890"*26
print len(ax.id)
a.setAxis(0,ax)


with cdms2.open("bad.nc","w") as f:
    f.write(a)

seems to be limited by C variable MAX_NC_NAME which likely comes from NetCDF

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dnadeau4 commented Feb 14, 2018

/software/anaconda2/envs/tests/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cdms2/dataset.py:1452: UserWarning: axis name has more than 127 characters, name will be truncated
  warnings.warn(msg, UserWarning)
<cdms2.fvariable.FileVariable object at 0x7f5eb0761b90>

@doutriaux1 please close

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