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/7767#issuecomment-1514489469,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7767,1514489469,IC_kwDOAMm_X85aRUZ9,14808389,2023-04-19T10:20:08Z,2023-04-19T10:20:08Z,MEMBER,"According to #503, there's two reasons: the fact that for masking this is so much easier to write (including when method chaining), and it is also API inherited from `pandas`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1674532233
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7767#issuecomment-1514441250,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7767,1514441250,IC_kwDOAMm_X85aRIoi,14808389,2023-04-19T09:45:27Z,2023-04-19T09:46:47Z,MEMBER,"to elaborate on that, `xr.DataArray.where` uses `self` as ""then"" and the second argument as ""other"", while for `xr.where` the second argument is ""then"" and the third argument is ""other"" (the condition is the first argument for both).

This API allows masking using just
```python
arr.where(mask)
```","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1674532233