Chris Bunney
Fixed by #483
Hello @leosaffin Thanks for the bug report. So, the issue is with the `expver` variable, which is stored using the "variable length" string type. If I remove the `expver` variable...
I think that whilst the proposed solution: ``` total_bytes = cf_var.size * np.dtype(cf_var.dtype).itemsize ``` does allow the code to proceed, it is not working entirely as expected as `itemsize` for...
The issue is that the length of a variable length (VLEN) array cannot be determined until the data has been read from disk, which sort of negates the point of...
From @SciTools/peloton: Hey @jrackham-mo - is this still on your radar?
Possibly related to the comment [here](https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/3584#issuecomment-2880846716)?
Modified slightly to address some failing unit tests. All tests passing locally for me now.
> Thanks @ukmo-ccbunney, changes all look good to me! I think it's worth just adding a small whatsnew entry for this, then it'll be good to go! Done.
From @SciTools/peloton : we should set up an internal meeting to discuss this and scope out the requirements.
Thanks for the bug report @schlunma It looks like this attribute comparison was relying on some old behaviour of numpy where comparing arrays of different size would return a scalar...