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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1482#issuecomment-320997555,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1482,320997555,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMyMDk5NzU1NQ==,1217238,2017-08-08T15:46:55Z,2017-08-08T15:46:55Z,MEMBER,"I understand why this could be useful, but I don't see how we could possibly make it work.

The notion of ""fixed dimension size"" is fundamental to both NumPy arrays (upon which xarray is based) and the xarray Dataset/DataArray. There are lots of various workarounds (e.g., using padding or a MultiIndex) but first class support for jagged arrays would break our existing data model too severely.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,243964948