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Should open_mfdataset try to guess which engine to use? #10834

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@jsignell

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The guess_can_open logic in backends can be hard to get right. It is certainly helpful to be able to guess an engine when opening a single file, but when you are opening a whole bunch of files you probably should explicitly set the engine.

I guess the action on this ticket would be to make the engine kwarg required on open_mfdataset.

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