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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2219#issuecomment-395617267 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2219 395617267 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM5NTYxNzI2Nw== 1217238 2018-06-08T01:31:07Z 2018-06-08T01:31:07Z MEMBER

It looks like this version works: xarray.Dataset({'x': ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']}).to_netcdf( 'foo.nc', engine='h5netcdf', encoding={'x': {'dtype': 'S1', 'zlib': True, 'chunksizes': (2, 3)}})

I suppose we could update chunksizes to accept both versions? Or just clearly document this behavior?

 
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