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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/5291#issuecomment-839373887 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5291 839373887 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgzOTM3Mzg4Nw== 1217238 2021-05-12T01:58:13Z 2021-05-12T01:58:13Z MEMBER

This is indeed unfortunate, thanks for the report!

I believe xarray.tutorial.load_dataset("air_temperature") works -- at least in my testing -- if either scipy or netCDF4 is installed (along with Pooch).

But if you don't have either scipy or netCDF4 installed, you get the very unhelpful error message ValueError: cannot guess the engine, try passing one explicitly

At the very least, we should report which engines are installed -- and ideally make a specific recommendation like installing scipy or netCDF4.

 
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