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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2097#issuecomment-385830499,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2097,385830499,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM4NTgzMDQ5OQ==,6815844,2018-05-02T00:33:17Z,2018-05-02T00:33:17Z,MEMBER,"Thanks for the report.

We did not consider to store an object type array other than string, but it should be supported.

I think we should improve this line,
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/39b2a37207fc8e6c5199ba9386831ba7eb06d82b/xarray/core/variable.py#L171-L172

We internally use many inhouse array-like classes and this line is used to avoid multiple nesting.
I think we can change this line to more explicit type checking.

Currently, the following does not work either
```python
In [11]: xr.DataArray(HasValues, dims=[])
Out[11]: 
<xarray.DataArray ()>
array(5)
```

For your perticular purpose, the following will be working
```
bad_indexed.loc[{'dim_0': 0}] = np.array(HasValues(), dtype=object)
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