html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/916#issuecomment-236990275,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/916,236990275,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDIzNjk5MDI3NQ==,1217238,2016-08-02T18:05:55Z,2016-08-02T18:06:35Z,MEMBER,"Repeating what I said in #883: > I'm thinking a signature something like `Dataset.filter(func=None, like=None, regex=None)` (see [here](https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/136794524a8f8954c0b8bf8f0327870d83cbf8d4/pandas/core/generic.py#L2382) for how filter is implemented in pandas). This does have the downside that it departs from pandas syntax by combining `filter` and `select`, but these are very related ways of filtering a dataset so it seems better to keep them in one method. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,166982621