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IndexError when slicing dask Array with unknown chunk sizes. #6586

@TomAugspurger

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@TomAugspurger

When doing fancy indexing on an index with missing chunks we raise an IndexError.

In [21]: a = da.ones((10, 5), chunks=5)

In [22]: a._chunks = ((np.nan, np.nan), (5,))

In [23]: a[[0, 5]].compute()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-23-314b1b59b481> in <module>
----> 1 a[[0, 5]].compute()

~/sandbox/dask/dask/dask/base.py in compute(self, **kwargs)
    165         dask.base.compute
    166         """
--> 167         (result,) = compute(self, traverse=False, **kwargs)
    168         return result
    169

~/sandbox/dask/dask/dask/base.py in compute(*args, **kwargs)
    450         postcomputes.append(x.__dask_postcompute__())
    451
--> 452     results = schedule(dsk, keys, **kwargs)
    453     return repack([f(r, *a) for r, (f, a) in zip(results, postcomputes)])
    454

~/sandbox/dask/dask/dask/threaded.py in get(dsk, result, cache, num_workers, pool, **kwargs)
     74                 pools[thread][num_workers] = pool
     75
---> 76     results = get_async(
     77         pool.apply_async,
     78         len(pool._pool),

~/sandbox/dask/dask/dask/local.py in get_async(apply_async, num_workers, dsk, result, cache, get_id, rerun_exceptions_locally, pack_exception, raise_exception, callbacks, dumps, loads, **kwargs)
    484                         _execute_task(task, data)  # Re-execute locally
    485                     else:
--> 486                         raise_exception(exc, tb)
    487                 res, worker_id = loads(res_info)
    488                 state["cache"][key] = res

~/sandbox/dask/dask/dask/local.py in reraise(exc, tb)
    314     if exc.__traceback__ is not tb:
    315         raise exc.with_traceback(tb)
--> 316     raise exc
    317
    318

~/sandbox/dask/dask/dask/local.py in execute_task(key, task_info, dumps, loads, get_id, pack_exception)
    220     try:
    221         task, data = loads(task_info)
--> 222         result = _execute_task(task, data)
    223         id = get_id()
    224         result = dumps((result, id))

~/sandbox/dask/dask/dask/core.py in _execute_task(arg, cache, dsk)
    119         # temporaries by their reference count and can execute certain
    120         # operations in-place.
--> 121         return func(*(_execute_task(a, cache) for a in args))
    122     elif not ishashable(arg):
    123         return arg

IndexError: index 5 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 5

It actually works if the indexer happens to slice from just the first chunk.

In [24]: a[[0, 4]].compute()
Out[24]:
array([[1., 1., 1., 1., 1.],
       [1., 1., 1., 1., 1.]])

I'm not sure what's best to do here. I can imagine a few things that might work but would be slow. Perhaps we just raise when people try to do fancy indexing on an array with unknown chunk sizes?

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arraygood first issueClearly described and easy to accomplish. Good for beginners to the project.

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