Existing tests in main breaking???

[bnlawrence]

FAILED tests/test_vlen_str.py::test_pathological_strings - AttributeError: 'numpy.bytes_' object has no attribute 'encode'. Did you mean: 'decode'?
(work26) bnl28@atmbnl pyfive % pytest tests/test_vlen_str.py 
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tmp_path = PosixPath('/private/var/folders/9w/f_svt4hn1t713pvb1q2jhdr00000gn/T/pytest-of-bnl28/pytest-371/test_pathological_strings0')

    def test_pathological_strings(tmp_path):
        tfile = tmp_path / "test_strings.nc"
>       validation = make_pathological_nc(tfile)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

tests/test_vlen_str.py:220: 
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tests/test_vlen_str.py:126: in make_pathological_nc
    c_months4[:, :] = nc.stringtochar(months)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>   ???
E   AttributeError: 'numpy.bytes_' object has no attribute 'encode'. Did you mean: 'decode'?

src/netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx:6824: AttributeError

[valeriupredoi]

@bnlawrence it's exactly this Unidata/netcdf4-python#1464 - it's fixed upstream in the development branch, but not yet released; I'll do the pinning for us here 🍺

[valeriupredoi]

@bnlawrence the pin on netCDF4-python (to not use 1.7.4) is in main, and all our tests pass, I reckon it's your local branch that has not picked it up yet