Dispatch to Dask if nanquantile is available

xarray/core/variable.py

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 )
 from xarray.namedarray.core import NamedArray, _raise_if_any_duplicate_dimensions
 from xarray.namedarray.pycompat import integer_types, is_0d_dask_array, to_duck_array
+from xarray.namedarray.utils import module_available
 from xarray.util.deprecation_helpers import deprecate_dims
 
 NON_NUMPY_SUPPORTED_ARRAY_TYPES = (
@@ -1948,7 +1949,7 @@ def _wrapper(npa, **kwargs):
             output_core_dims=[["quantile"]],
             output_dtypes=[np.float64],
             dask_gufunc_kwargs=dict(output_sizes={"quantile": len(q)}),
-            dask="parallelized",
+            dask="allowed" if module_available("dask", "2024.11.0") else "parallelized",
             kwargs=kwargs,
         )
 

xarray/tests/__init__.py

@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ def _importorskip(
     has_h5netcdf, requires_h5netcdf = _importorskip("h5netcdf")
 has_cftime, requires_cftime = _importorskip("cftime")
 has_dask, requires_dask = _importorskip("dask")
+has_dask_ge_2024_11_0, requires_dask_ge_2024_11_0 = _importorskip("dask", "2024.11.0")
 with warnings.catch_warnings():
     warnings.filterwarnings(
         "ignore",

xarray/tests/test_variable.py

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
     assert_equal,
     assert_identical,
     assert_no_warnings,
+    has_dask_ge_2024_11_0,
     has_pandas_3,
     raise_if_dask_computes,
     requires_bottleneck,
@@ -1871,9 +1872,16 @@ def test_quantile_interpolation_deprecation(self, method) -> None:
     def test_quantile_chunked_dim_error(self):
         v = Variable(["x", "y"], self.d).chunk({"x": 2})
 
-        # this checks for ValueError in dask.array.apply_gufunc
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=r"consists of multiple chunks"):
-            v.quantile(0.5, dim="x")
+        if has_dask_ge_2024_11_0:
+            # Dask rechunks
+            np.testing.assert_allclose(
+                v.compute().quantile(0.5, dim="x"), v.quantile(0.5, dim="x")
+            )
+
+        else:
+            # this checks for ValueError in dask.array.apply_gufunc
+            with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=r"consists of multiple chunks"):
+                v.quantile(0.5, dim="x")
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("compute_backend", ["numbagg", None], indirect=True)
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("q", [-0.1, 1.1, [2], [0.25, 2]])