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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4055#issuecomment-628816425,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4055,628816425,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyODgxNjQyNQ==,1217238,2020-05-14T18:37:40Z,2020-05-14T18:37:40Z,MEMBER,"If we think can *improve* an error message by adding additional context, the right solution is to use `raise Exception(...) from original_error`:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16414892/809705

On the other hand, if xarray doesn't have anything more to add on top of the original error message, it is best not to add any wrapper at all. Users will just see the original error from dask.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,617476316
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4055#issuecomment-628747933,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4055,628747933,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyODc0NzkzMw==,1217238,2020-05-14T16:31:39Z,2020-05-14T16:31:39Z,MEMBER,"The error message from dask is already pretty descriptive:
`NotImplementedError: Can not use auto rechunking with object dtype. We are unable to estimate the size in bytes of object data`

I don't think we have much to add on top of that?","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,617476316
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4055#issuecomment-628582552,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4055,628582552,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyODU4MjU1Mg==,2448579,2020-05-14T11:51:21Z,2020-05-14T11:51:21Z,MEMBER,"`is_scalar(chunks)` might be the appropriate condition. `is_scalar` is already imported from `.utils` in `dataset.py`

> This seems to work fine in a lot of cases, except automatic chunking isn't implemented for object dtypes at the moment, so it fails if you pass a cftime coordinate, for example.

Can we catch this error and re-raise specifying ""automatic chunking fails for object arrays. These include cftime DataArrays"" or something like that?
","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,617476316
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4055#issuecomment-628319690,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4055,628319690,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyODMxOTY5MA==,1217238,2020-05-14T00:43:22Z,2020-05-14T00:43:22Z,MEMBER,"Agreed, this would be very welcome!

`chunks='auto'` isn't supported only because xarray support for dask predates it :)","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,617476316
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4055#issuecomment-628231949,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4055,628231949,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyODIzMTk0OQ==,2448579,2020-05-13T20:35:49Z,2020-05-13T20:35:49Z,MEMBER,Awesome! Please see https://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/contributing.html for docs on contributing,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,617476316
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4055#issuecomment-628065564,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4055,628065564,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyODA2NTU2NA==,2448579,2020-05-13T15:26:10Z,2020-05-13T15:26:49Z,MEMBER,"so `da.chunk({dim_name: ""auto""})` works but `da.chunk(""auto"")` does not. The latter is a relatively easy fix. We just need to update the condition here:
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/bd84186acbd84bd386134a5b60111596cee2d8ec/xarray/core/dataset.py#L1736-L1737

A PR would be very welcome if you have the time, @AndrewWilliams3142","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,617476316