Catch errors when writing out metadata values which might have specia…

…l types and can't be safely cast (e.g. VALID_RANGE).
cedadev · Jan 17, 2017 · fa84fc7 · fa84fc7
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diff --git a/cis/data_io/write_netcdf.py b/cis/data_io/write_netcdf.py
@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ def __add_metadata(var, data):
         setattr(var, name, value)
     for name, value in data.metadata.misc.items():
         if name not in var.ncattrs():
-            setattr(var, name, value)
+            try:
+                setattr(var, name, value)
+            except ValueError:
+                logging.warning("Invalid value ({}) for {} attribute. Attribute not saved to {}.".format(value, name, var))
     return var