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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7868#issuecomment-1561358915 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7868 1561358915 IC_kwDOAMm_X85dEHJD 19285200 2023-05-24T15:20:00Z 2023-05-24T15:20:00Z NONE

Dask array with dtype object can contain whatever python object (i.e. I saw examples of geometry and matplotlib collections within dask arrays with object dtype). As a consequence, dask do not try the conversion to i.e. str to estimate the array size, since there is no clean way AFAIK to attach an attribute to dtype suggesting that the object is actually a string.

With your PR, the dtype is not anymore object when creating the dask.array and this solves the issue I guess. Did I overlooked something?

 
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