Unlike cfdm which has no concept of a Fieldlist, cf-python should return fields contained in a FieldList object rather than a regular Python list, which it returns at the moment:
>>> type(cfdm.example_fields()) # expect a list
<class 'list'>
>>> type(cf.example_fields()) # expect a FieldList
<class 'list'>
Unlike
cfdmwhich has no concept of aFieldlist, cf-python should return fields contained in aFieldListobject rather than a regular Python list, which it returns at the moment: