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Citing @shoyer from above comment:

The main reason why we don't do any special handling for object arrays currently in xarray is that our conventions coding/decoding system has no way of marking variable length string arrays. We should probably handle this by making a custom dtype like h5py that marks variables length strings using dtype metadata: http://docs.h5py.org/en/latest/special.html#variable-length-strings

Another interesting issue by @shoyer: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2059

I'm really uncertain if using .astype here is the right way to go. Any comments appreciated.

 
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