Yet more formatting issues

satpy/readers/netcdf_utils.py

@@ -211,7 +211,20 @@ def _collect_global_attrs(self, obj):
             self.file_content[fc_key] = global_attrs[key] = value
         self.file_content["/attrs"] = global_attrs
 
-    def _get_object_attrs(self, obj):
+    @classmethod
+    def _get_object_attrs(cls, obj):
+        """
+
+        Do not try to use __dict__ if obj is a compound variable.
+        Return empty dict if it is, otherwise return the object's
+        attributes in a dict.
+        """
+        try:
+            if obj.dtype.kind == "V":
+                LOG.warning(f"Warning: Cannot load attributes for compound variable ({obj.name})")
+                return {}
+        except (AttributeError, KeyError):
+            pass
         return obj.__dict__
 
     def _collect_attrs(self, name, obj):