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/pull/1422#issuecomment-305865518,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1422,305865518,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMwNTg2NTUxOA==,1217238,2017-06-02T17:55:18Z,2017-06-02T17:55:18Z,MEMBER,@benbovy thanks!,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,230631480 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1422#issuecomment-303635426,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1422,303635426,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMwMzYzNTQyNg==,1217238,2017-05-24T06:57:57Z,2017-05-24T06:57:57Z,MEMBER,"We have some tests for `as_variable`, but it looks a little thin for public API: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/d80248476ebe4a3845211c5d58e0af1effc73ea3/xarray/tests/test_variable.py#L609 The remaining test failures should be fixed by https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1423","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,230631480 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1422#issuecomment-303513756,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1422,303513756,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMwMzUxMzc1Ng==,1217238,2017-05-23T19:56:21Z,2017-05-23T19:56:21Z,MEMBER,"> Mmm I don't see any current use of the copy keyword argument inside the as_variable function. Here is the only place where I found copy to be explicitly provided. Can I safely remove it also there? Yes, we can safely remove the `copy` argument here. At point point, `as_variable` did not always return a new `Variable` object, but as you can see it always does that now.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,230631480