id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,active_lock_reason,draft,pull_request,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,state_reason,repo,type 176406182,MDU6SXNzdWUxNzY0MDYxODI=,1003,Bytes being transformed to a numpy array with dtype=object in coordinates,8268008,closed,0,,,2,2016-09-12T15:28:21Z,2019-02-25T15:28:23Z,2019-02-25T15:28:23Z,NONE,,,,"This relates again to this code: https://gist.github.com/ceridwen/21f86231e86b72bf18fcc16fcee01548 . ``` python dataset = transform.read_games(['2016-06.json']) >>> dataset Dimensions: (event: 91, faction: 20, game: 2643, round: 7) Coordinates: * round (round) int64 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 * faction (faction) |S14 b'acolytes' b'alchemists' b'auren' ... * event (event) |S26 b'action:ACT1' b'action:ACT2' b'action:ACT3' ... * game (game) object b'005Stedda' b'006St3dda' b'00s10' b'0106' ... Data variables: player5 (game) |S17 b'Stedda' b'Muchacho' b'' b'modong' b'' b'' ... player3 (game) |S19 b'Emoht' b'Xrystofer' b'' b'runrun57' ... date (game) datetime64[ns] 2016-06-07T22:30:47 ... player1 (game) |S22 b'ocollard' b'BillyMirmidon' b'00' b'Animax' ... player2 (game) |S21 b'Mies730' b'Stedda' b'romance90' ... scoring_tiles (game, round) |S6 b'' b'SCORE9' b'SCORE4' b'SCORE2' ... player4 (game) |S20 b'Deryl' b'CarpalTunnel' b'' b'Zak_tak' b'' ... events (game, faction, event, round) float16 nan nan nan nan nan ... players_count (game) int8 5 5 2 5 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 4 2 ... ``` Notice that the dtype for the coordinate game is `object`, even though `games` is a list of bytes, that is `{type(e) for e in names}` evaluates to `{bytes}`. ","{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1003/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed,13221727,issue