html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1238#issuecomment-751254357,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1238,751254357,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc1MTI1NDM1Nw==,10194086,2020-12-25T14:07:05Z,2020-12-25T14:07:05Z,MEMBER,still relevant,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,203999231
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1238#issuecomment-457220713,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1238,457220713,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ1NzIyMDcxMw==,1217238,2019-01-24T14:42:21Z,2019-01-24T14:42:21Z,MEMBER,"I think this will eventually get fixed ""for free"" as part of the explicit indexes refactor.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,203999231
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1238#issuecomment-457207288,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1238,457207288,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ1NzIwNzI4OA==,5635139,2019-01-24T14:03:22Z,2019-01-24T14:03:22Z,MEMBER,"Thanks @gerritholl 

More broadly: is this reasonable to fix, given how much we rely on pandas' indexing, given that pandas converts string arrays to object dtype?","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,203999231
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1238#issuecomment-276142223,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1238,276142223,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI3NjE0MjIyMw==,1217238,2017-01-30T18:09:14Z,2017-01-30T18:09:14Z,MEMBER,"No, [pandas uses `dtype=object` to represent strings](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21018654/strings-in-a-dataframe-but-dtype-is-object). We paper over this in some cases in xarray because it's convenient to get objects with the original dtype back from `array.data`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,203999231
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1238#issuecomment-276138760,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1238,276138760,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI3NjEzODc2MA==,1217238,2017-01-30T17:59:29Z,2017-01-30T17:59:29Z,MEMBER,`PandasIndexAdapter` contains some logic for preserving dtypes but it looks like didn't hook that up to `set_index` machinery.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,203999231