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/1481#issuecomment-317050127,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1481,317050127,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNzA1MDEyNw==,1217238,2017-07-21T16:40:19Z,2017-07-21T16:40:19Z,MEMBER,"Our [formatting logic](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/5d245b22e9500a7eb805193ba5c65bb5474a5ae1/xarray/core/formatting.py#L176) pulls out the first few values of arrays to print them in the repr. It appears that this is failing spectacularly in this case, though I'm not sure why. Can you share a quick preview of what a single one of your constituent netCDF files looks like? More broadly: maybe we should disable automatically printing a preview of the contents of `xarray.Dataset` objects when they have lazily loaded data in the form of dask arrays. This is convenient for interactive use in many cases (when it can be done cheaply!) but fails in many edge cases.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,243927150