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1918061661 I_kwDOAMm_X85yU0xd 8251 `.chunk()` doesn't create chunks on 0 dim arrays 5635139 open 0     0 2023-09-28T18:30:50Z 2023-09-30T21:31:05Z   MEMBER      

What happened?

.chunk's docstring states:

``` """Coerce this array's data into a dask arrays with the given chunks.

    If this variable is a non-dask array, it will be converted to dask
    array. If it's a dask array, it will be rechunked to the given chunk
    sizes.

```

...but this doesn't happen for 0 dim arrays; example below.

For context, as part of #8245, I had a function that creates a template array. It created an empty DataArray, then expanded dims for each dimension. And it kept blowing up memory! ...until I realized that it was actually not a lazy array.

What did you expect to happen?

It may be that we can't have a 0-dim dask array — but then we should raise in this method, rather than return the wrong thing.

Minimal Complete Verifiable Example

```Python [ins] In [1]: type(xr.DataArray().chunk().data) Out[1]: numpy.ndarray

[ins] In [2]: type(xr.DataArray(1).chunk().data) Out[2]: numpy.ndarray

[ins] In [3]: type(xr.DataArray([1]).chunk().data) Out[3]: dask.array.core.Array ```

MVCE confirmation

  • [X] Minimal example — the example is as focused as reasonably possible to demonstrate the underlying issue in xarray.
  • [X] Complete example — the example is self-contained, including all data and the text of any traceback.
  • [X] Verifiable example — the example copy & pastes into an IPython prompt or Binder notebook, returning the result.
  • [X] New issue — a search of GitHub Issues suggests this is not a duplicate.

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Anything else we need to know?

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Environment

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: 0d6cd2a39f61128e023628c4352f653537585a12 python: 3.9.18 (main, Aug 24 2023, 21:19:58) [Clang 14.0.3 (clang-1403.0.22.14.1)] python-bits: 64 OS: Darwin OS-release: 22.6.0 machine: arm64 processor: arm byteorder: little LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 LANG: None LOCALE: ('en_US', 'UTF-8') libhdf5: None libnetcdf: None xarray: 2023.8.1.dev25+g8215911a.d20230914 pandas: 2.1.1 numpy: 1.25.2 scipy: 1.11.1 netCDF4: None pydap: None h5netcdf: None h5py: None Nio: None zarr: 2.16.0 cftime: None nc_time_axis: None PseudoNetCDF: None iris: None bottleneck: None dask: 2023.4.0 distributed: 2023.7.1 matplotlib: 3.5.1 cartopy: None seaborn: None numbagg: 0.2.3.dev30+gd26e29e fsspec: 2021.11.1 cupy: None pint: None sparse: None flox: 0.7.2 numpy_groupies: 0.9.19 setuptools: 68.1.2 pip: 23.2.1 conda: None pytest: 7.4.0 mypy: 1.5.1 IPython: 8.15.0 sphinx: 4.3.2 
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