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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/62#issuecomment-37435670,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/62,37435670,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3NDM1Njcw,514053,2014-03-12T17:10:58Z,2014-03-12T17:10:58Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"Renaming set_variables to update seems reasonable to me.  Its behavior seems similar enough to dict.update.  Then a separate function replace could be a lightweight wrapper around update which makes a copy:

obj = type(self)(variables, self.attributes)
obj.update(_args, *_kwdargs)
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/62#issuecomment-37432906,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/62,37432906,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3NDMyOTA2,1794715,2014-03-12T16:50:18Z,2014-03-12T16:50:18Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"I definitely like the inplace idea.  We could also use the function name
update in this case.
On Mar 12, 2014 9:49 AM, ""Stephan Hoyer"" notifications@github.com wrote:

> I'm thinking now that we should move Dataset.replace into
> Dataset.set_variables, with the keyword argument ""inplace"" (like
> Dataset.merge). This would consolidate the public interface (which is
> usually a good thing).
> 
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/62#issuecomment-37376646,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/62,37376646,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3Mzc2NjQ2,1794715,2014-03-12T05:24:06Z,2014-03-12T05:24:06Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"True.  Maybe stick with replace, and we can put filter on the to do? I may
work on it tomorrow.
On Mar 11, 2014 10:10 PM, ""Stephan Hoyer"" notifications@github.com wrote:

> Yes, I suppose update would be an appropriate name -- except update
> strongly conveys (to me) that the operation is done in place (like how it
> works for Python dicts).
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/62#issuecomment-37375935,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/62,37375935,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3Mzc1OTM1,1794715,2014-03-12T05:05:00Z,2014-03-12T05:05:00Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"Don't dicts have an update function that works this way?
On Mar 11, 2014 9:48 PM, ""Stephan Hoyer"" notifications@github.com wrote:

> Perhaps this method should be called ""modify"" instead of ""replace"", since
> it also lets you set or remove variables. Thoughts?
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/62#issuecomment-37358215,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/62,37358215,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3MzU4MjE1,1794715,2014-03-11T23:13:12Z,2014-03-11T23:13:12Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"This in response to your first bullet:

Create a new dataset based on some (but not all) variables from an existing
dataset.

for that there's a filter() in pandas.  it would be useful to have here as
well.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Stephan Hoyer notifications@github.comwrote:

> Not really. A filter method would be a useful addition for xray, but
> Dataset.replace is replacing entire variables, not values in variable.
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/62#issuecomment-37354993,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/62,37354993,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3MzU0OTkz,1794715,2014-03-11T22:36:32Z,2014-03-11T22:36:32Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"Is part 1 similar to the pandas .filter operator?  That one has nice keywords, 'like', 'regex', etc.
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