xarray-contrib / xarray-contrib/pint-xarray

chunks returns None for quantified array

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Description

DataArray.chunks checks the type of the DataArray.data and sees that it's a pint Quantity rather than a dask array, so it returns None:

xr.DataArray([1,2,3], dims=['x'], attrs={'units': 'm'}).pint.quantify().pint.chunk(1).chunks

None

xarray 2026.1.0, pint-xarray 0.6.0

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Start with the documented DataArray.chunks behavior and reproduce the quantified-array example using pint.quantify() and pint.chunk(1). Trace how the pint accessor wraps the underlying data and determine why chunks becomes None. Done means the example reports its dask chunking consistently, with a regression test covering quantified arrays.

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data
Issue type
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