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/768#issuecomment-187575468,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/768,187575468,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE4NzU3NTQ2OA==,2443309,2016-02-23T06:58:25Z,2016-02-23T06:58:25Z,MEMBER,"@jonathanstrong - Thanks for the input.  I agree, we could spice up our IO docs.  Like you, I think it makes sense to play down the pickle serialization method.  

@MaximilianR 

> unless open / open_dataset supports other formats...

It does.  From [here](http://xray.readthedocs.org/en/stable/io.html#formats-supported-by-pynio):

> ## Formats supported by PyNIO
> 
> xarray can also read GRIB, HDF4 and other file formats supported by PyNIO_, if PyNIO is installed. To use PyNIO to read such files, supply `engine='pynio'` to `xarray.open_dataset`.
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,134376872