Merge pull request #1322 from opoplawski/incompatible-pointer

Fix incompatbile pointer argument to nc_put_att_string()

Author: Jeff Whitaker

include/netCDF4.pxi

@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ cdef extern from "netcdf.h":
                size_t len, void *op) nogil
     int nc_get_att(int ncid, int varid, char *name, void *ip) nogil
     int nc_get_att_string(int ncid, int varid, char *name, char **ip) nogil
-    int nc_put_att_string(int ncid, int varid, char *name, size_t len, char **op) nogil
+    int nc_put_att_string(int ncid, int varid, char *name, size_t len, const char **op) nogil
     int nc_def_opaque(int ncid, size_t size, char *name, nc_type *xtypep) nogil
     int nc_inq_opaque(int ncid, nc_type xtype, char *name, size_t *sizep) nogil
     int nc_put_att_opaque(int ncid, int varid, char *name,

src/netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx

@@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@ be raised in the next release."""
                     string_ptrs[j] = strings[j]
                 issue485_workaround(grpid, varid, attname)
                 with nogil:
-                    ierr = nc_put_att_string(grpid, varid, attname, N, string_ptrs)
+                    ierr = nc_put_att_string(grpid, varid, attname, N, <const char**>string_ptrs)
             finally:
                 PyMem_Free(string_ptrs)
         else:
@@ -1825,7 +1825,7 @@ be raised in the next release."""
                 except UnicodeError:
                     issue485_workaround(grpid, varid, attname)
                     with nogil:
-                        ierr = nc_put_att_string(grpid, varid, attname, 1, &datstring)
+                        ierr = nc_put_att_string(grpid, varid, attname, 1, <const char**>&datstring)
             else:
                 with nogil:
                     ierr = nc_put_att_text(grpid, varid, attname, lenarr, datstring)