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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/5545#issuecomment-869763953,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5545,869763953,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg2OTc2Mzk1Mw==,14808389,2021-06-28T15:06:23Z,2021-06-28T15:06:23Z,MEMBER,"choosing default values is hard and always some kind of a tradeoff. In general we should strive to choose a default that is useful to most users (but how do you measure ""useful to most users""?), and if that is not the case for a particular use case it should be configurable. I agree that having to remember to add the `set_options` call in every script / notebook / interpreter session is annoying, but there is not too much we can do (except adding a configuration file? but that might make the `set_options` code more complicated...)

For this particular setting I think the idea for the current value was that printing a lot of variables is slow and, most importantly, that the `repr` should provide an overview of the object, and in my opinion not being able to have all sections visible reduces the usefulness of the `repr` (which is why I tend to also set `display_expand_data=False` at the top of my notebooks). In the PR that introduced the setting we somewhat arbitrarily chose the number 12 but I don't think it should be much higher.

Thoughts, @pydata/xarray?

Disabling the restriction should be possible (but again, not the default), maybe `xr.set_options(display_max_rows=float(""inf""))` works?","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,931591247