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Avoid coercing to numpy in as_shared_dtypes #8714

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extract dtypes from underlying duck arrays without coercing to numpy
TomNicholas Feb 6, 2024
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remove print statements
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use array namespace again
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use pycompat.to_duck_array instead
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a sprinkle of type hints
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Merge branch 'main' into dont-coerce-to-numpy-in-as-shared-dtype
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Merge branch 'main' into dont-coerce-to-numpy-in-as-shared-dtype
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don't compute in as_shared_dtype
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ConcatenatableArray class
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test that no coercion occurs using ConcatenatableArray
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36 changes: 20 additions & 16 deletions xarray/core/duck_array_ops.py
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Expand Up @@ -217,23 +217,27 @@ def asarray(data, xp=np):
return data if is_duck_array(data) else xp.asarray(data)


def as_shared_dtype(scalars_or_arrays, xp=np):
"""Cast a arrays to a shared dtype using xarray's type promotion rules."""
array_type_cupy = array_type("cupy")
if array_type_cupy and any(
isinstance(x, array_type_cupy) for x in scalars_or_arrays
):
import cupy as cp

arrays = [asarray(x, xp=cp) for x in scalars_or_arrays]
def as_duck_array(data, xp=np):
if is_duck_array(data):
return data
elif hasattr(data, "get_duck_array"):
# must be a lazy indexing class wrapping a duck array
return data.get_duck_array()
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Will this idea always work? What if it steps down through a lazy decoder class that changes the dtype...

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Those should be going through

xarray/xarray/coding/variables.py

Lines 52 to 64 in c9ba2be

class _ElementwiseFunctionArray(indexing.ExplicitlyIndexedNDArrayMixin):
"""Lazily computed array holding values of elemwise-function.
Do not construct this object directly: call lazy_elemwise_func instead.
Values are computed upon indexing or coercion to a NumPy array.
"""
def __init__(self, array, func: Callable, dtype: np.typing.DTypeLike):
assert not is_chunked_array(array)
self.array = indexing.as_indexable(array)
self.func = func
self._dtype = dtype

so you should be fine.

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I think I'm getting confused as to how this all works now... Don't I want to be computing as_shared_dtype using the dtype of the outermost wrapped class? Whereas this will step through all the way to the innermost duckarray, which may have a different dtype?

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As of now, as_shared_dtype is expected to return pure duck arrays for stack, concatenate, and where.

So that means we need to read from disk, which you do with to_duck_array and all these wrapper layers will be resolved.

It will get more complicated when we do lazy concatenation in Xarray, then we'd need to lazily infer dtypes and apply a lazy astype.

else:
arrays = [asarray(x, xp=xp) for x in scalars_or_arrays]
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Previously this asarray call would coerce to numpy unnecessarily, when all we really wanted was an array type that we could examine the .dtype attribute of.

# Pass arrays directly instead of dtypes to result_type so scalars
# get handled properly.
# Note that result_type() safely gets the dtype from dask arrays without
# evaluating them.
out_type = dtypes.result_type(*arrays)
return [astype(x, out_type, copy=False) for x in arrays]
array_type_cupy = array_type("cupy")
if array_type_cupy and any(isinstance(data, array_type_cupy)):
import cupy as cp

return asarray(data, xp=cp)
else:
return asarray(data, xp=xp)


def as_shared_dtype(scalars_or_arrays, xp=np):
"""Cast arrays to a shared dtype using xarray's type promotion rules."""
duckarrays = [as_duck_array(obj, xp=xp) for obj in scalars_or_arrays]
out_type = dtypes.result_type(*duckarrays)
return [astype(x, out_type, copy=False) for x in duckarrays]


def broadcast_to(array, shape):
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