There are some places in the Python scripts where we use the dims member of Xarray Datasets in order to get dimension lengths. As of the latest ctsm_pylib (Python 3.13.2, Xarray 2025.1.2), this produces a warning (here produced from ctsm5.3.063):
modify_fsurdat.py:49: FutureWarning: The return type of `Dataset.dims` will be changed to return a set of dimension names in future, in order to be more consistent with `DataArray.dims`. To access a mapping from dimension names to lengths, please use `Dataset.sizes`.
self.numurbl = self.file.dims["numurbl"]
We should go ahead and convert all such instances to Dataset.sizes so we don't have confusing failures when we eventually update Xarray to a version with the new behavior.
There are some places in the Python scripts where we use the
dimsmember of Xarray Datasets in order to get dimension lengths. As of the latestctsm_pylib(Python 3.13.2, Xarray 2025.1.2), this produces a warning (here produced from ctsm5.3.063):We should go ahead and convert all such instances to
Dataset.sizesso we don't have confusing failures when we eventually update Xarray to a version with the new behavior.