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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _disable_auto_decode_variable(var):
 """Disable automatic decoding on a netCDF4.Variable. We handle these types of decoding ourselves. """

    var.set_auto_maskandscale(False)

    # only added in netCDF4-python v1.2.8
    with suppress(AttributeError):
        var.set_auto_chartostring(False)