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327613219 MDU6SXNzdWUzMjc2MTMyMTk= 2198 DataArray.encoding['chunksizes'] not respected in to_netcdf 6404167 closed 0     2 2018-05-30T07:50:59Z 2019-06-06T20:35:50Z 2019-06-06T20:35:50Z CONTRIBUTOR      

This might be just a documentation issue, so sorry if this is not a problem with xarray.

I'm trying to save an intermediate result of a calculation with xarray + dask to disk, but I'd like to preserve the on-disk chunking. Setting the encoding of a Dataset.data_var or DataArray using the encoding attribute seems to work for (at least) some encoding variables, but not for chunksizes. For example:

``` python import xarray as xr import dask.array as da from dask.distributed import Client from IPython import embed

First generate a file with random numbers

rng = da.random.RandomState() shape = (10, 10000) chunks = [10, 10] dims = ['x', 'y'] z = rng.standard_normal(shape, chunks=chunks) da = xr.DataArray(z, dims=dims, name='z')

Set encoding of the DataArray

da.encoding['chunksizes'] = chunks # Not conserved da.encoding['zlib'] = True # Conserved ds = da.to_dataset() print(ds['z'].encoding) #out: {'chunksizes': [10, 10], 'zlib': True}

This one is chunked and compressed correctly

ds.to_netcdf('test1.nc', encoding={'z': {'chunksizes': chunks}})

While this one is only compressed

ds.to_netcdf('test2.nc') ```

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: None python: 3.6.5.final.0 python-bits: 64 OS: Linux OS-release: 4.16.5-1-ARCH machine: x86_64 processor: byteorder: little LC_ALL: LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE: en_US.UTF-8 xarray: 0.10.4 pandas: 0.22.0 numpy: 1.14.3 scipy: 0.19.0 netCDF4: 1.4.0 h5netcdf: 0.5.1 h5py: 2.7.1 Nio: None zarr: None bottleneck: None cyordereddict: None dask: 0.17.5 distributed: 1.21.8 matplotlib: 2.0.2 cartopy: None seaborn: 0.7.1 setuptools: 39.1.0 pip: 9.0.1 conda: None pytest: 3.2.2 IPython: 6.3.1 sphinx: None 
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