[do not merge] test new dtypes in zarr-python

ci/install-upstream-wheels.sh

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ python -m pip install \
     git+https://github.com/dask/dask \
     git+https://github.com/dask/dask-expr \
     git+https://github.com/dask/distributed \
-    git+https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python \
+    git+https://github.com/d-v-b/zarr-python.git@feat/fixed-length-strings \
     git+https://github.com/Unidata/cftime \
     git+https://github.com/pypa/packaging \
     git+https://github.com/hgrecco/pint \

pyproject.toml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ io = [
   "h5netcdf",
   "scipy",
   'pydap; python_version<"3.10"',
-  "zarr",
+  "zarr @ git+https://github.com/d-v-b/zarr-python.git@feat/fixed-length-strings",
   "fsspec",
   "cftime",
   "pooch",

xarray/backends/zarr.py

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 from xarray.core.variable import Variable
 from xarray.namedarray.parallelcompat import guess_chunkmanager
 from xarray.namedarray.pycompat import integer_types
-from xarray.namedarray.utils import module_available
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from xarray.backends.common import AbstractDataStore
@@ -106,7 +105,14 @@ def _choose_default_mode(
 
 
 def _zarr_v3() -> bool:
-    return module_available("zarr", minversion="3")
+    # don't use the module_available function because it doesn't report zarr v3 correctly.
+    try:
+        import zarr
+        from packaging.version import Version
+
+        return Version(zarr.__version__).major == 3
+    except ImportError:
+        return False
 
 
 # need some special secret attributes to tell us the dimensions

xarray/namedarray/utils.py

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ def module_available(module: str, minversion: str | None = None) -> bool:
     """
     if importlib.util.find_spec(module) is None:
         return False
-
     if minversion is not None:
         version = importlib.metadata.version(module)