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/2884#issuecomment-481761939,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2884,481761939,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ4MTc2MTkzOQ==,2448579,2019-04-10T16:24:34Z,2019-04-10T16:24:43Z,MEMBER,"> I often work with datasets that consist out of a lot of data_variables and coordinates. I'm pretty sure there's an issue request somewhere to add `keep_vars` to the `open_*dataset` functions if you wanted to tackle that too :)","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,431584027 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2884#issuecomment-481761608,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2884,481761608,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ4MTc2MTYwOA==,2448579,2019-04-10T16:23:41Z,2019-04-10T16:23:41Z,MEMBER,"`ds[['var1', 'var3']]` also works AFAIR. @jbusecke Can you send in a PR to update the docs? https://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/data-structures.html#dataset","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,431584027