Remove special mapping of auto to {} in open_zarr
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xr.open_zarrandxr.open_dataset(..., engine='zarr')withchunks="auto"#11002whats-new.rstThis PR makes the handling of
chunks="auto"consistent betweenopen_zarrandopen_dataset(..., engine="zarr").The handling of chunks still differs in
open_zarrvsopen_dataset(..., engine="zarr")in that the default inopen_zarris to usechunks={}and a chunk manager (aka dask) when available in your env. And inopen_datasetthe default is to usechunks=None(aka no chunks).