update group handling for unicode data types

podaac · Nov 30, 2023 · dd345b8 · dd345b8
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diff --git a/podaac/subsetter/group_handling.py b/podaac/subsetter/group_handling.py
@@ -190,14 +190,16 @@ def _rename_variables(dataset: xr.Dataset, base_dataset: nc.Dataset, start_date,
         elif variable.dtype in ['|S1', '|S2']:
             var_group.createVariable(new_var_name, variable.dtype, var_dims, fill_value=fill_value)
         else:
+            if np.issubdtype(variable.dtype, np.unicode_):
+                comp_args["zlib"] = False
             var_group.createVariable(new_var_name, variable.dtype, var_dims, fill_value=fill_value, **comp_args)
 
         # Copy attributes
         var_group.variables[new_var_name].setncatts(var_attrs)
 
         # Copy data
         var_group.variables[new_var_name].set_auto_maskandscale(False)
-        if variable.dtype in ['|S1', '|S2']:
+        if variable.dtype in ['|S1', '|S2'] or np.issubdtype(variable.dtype, np.unicode_):
             var_group.variables[new_var_name][:] = variable.values
         else:
             var_group.variables[new_var_name][:] = var_data