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/7245#issuecomment-1383192335,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7245,1383192335,IC_kwDOAMm_X85ScdcP,90008,2023-01-15T16:23:15Z,2023-01-15T16:23:15Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"Thank you for your explination.

Do you think it is safe to ""strip"" encoding after ""loading"" the data? or is it still used after the initial call to `open_dataset`?","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1432388736
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7245#issuecomment-1369001951,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7245,1369001951,IC_kwDOAMm_X85RmU_f,90008,2023-01-02T14:41:45Z,2023-01-02T14:41:45Z,CONTRIBUTOR,Kind bump,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1432388736
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7245#issuecomment-1300527716,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7245,1300527716,IC_kwDOAMm_X85NhHpk,90008,2022-11-02T14:27:04Z,2022-11-02T14:27:04Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"While the above ""fix"" addresses the issues with renaming coordinates, I think there are plenty of usecases where we would still end up with strange, or unexpected results. For example.

1. Load a dataset with many non-indexing coordinates.
2. Dropping variables (that happen to be coordinates).
3. Then adding back a variable with the same name. 
4. Upon save, encoding would dictate that it is a coordinate of a particular variable and will promote it to a coordinate instead of data.


We could apply the ""fix"" to the `drop_vars` method as well, but I think it may be hard (though not impossible) to hit all the cases.

I think a more ""generic"", albeit breaking"" fix would be to remove the ""`coordinates`"" entirely from encoding after the dataset has been loaded. That said, this only ""works"" if `dataset['variable_name'].encoding['coordinates']` is considered a private variable. That is, users are not supposed to be adding to it at will.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1432388736
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7245#issuecomment-1299492524,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7245,1299492524,IC_kwDOAMm_X85NdK6s,90008,2022-11-02T02:49:58Z,2022-11-02T02:57:37Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"And if you want to have a clean encoding dictionary, you may want to do the following:

```python
        names = set(names)
        for _, variable in obj._variables.items():
            if 'coordinates' in variable.encoding:
                coords_in_encoding = set(variable.encoding.get('coordinates').split(' '))
                remaining_coords = coords_in_encoding - names
                if len(remaining_coords) == 0:
                    del variable.encoding['coordinates']
                else:
                    variable.encoding['coordinates'] = ' '.join(remaining_coords)
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1432388736