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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/7862#issuecomment-1561308333 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7862 1561308333 IC_kwDOAMm_X85dD6yt 85085 2023-05-24T14:51:23Z 2023-05-24T14:51:23Z CONTRIBUTOR

So it looks like the changes here with the fix in my branch will get your issue resolved @tomwhite, right?

Yes - thanks!

I'm a bit worried, that this might break other users workflows, if they depend on the current conversion to floating point for some reason.

The floating point default is preserved if you do e.g. xr.Dataset({"a": np.array([], dtype=object)}). The change here will only convert to string if there is extra metadata present that says it is a string.

 
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