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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/5607#issuecomment-881967812,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5607,881967812,IC_kwDOAMm_X840kcLE,5635139,2021-07-17T22:25:54Z,2021-07-17T22:25:54Z,MEMBER,"@naught101 to what extent do you think your wants are idiosyncratic vs. better overall? To the extent this is for things that would make the function better for all, then one option is to implement them; e.g. add ` `f""Largest difference in data is {abs(a-b).max().item()}""`.

Possibly that reduces the opportunity to experiment though? People could probably monkey-patch the function in their own environments if they want. And I think we can also be fairly liberal about merging changes given the output is read by people.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,945226829
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/5607#issuecomment-881269881,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5607,881269881,IC_kwDOAMm_X840hxx5,5635139,2021-07-16T08:23:52Z,2021-07-16T08:23:52Z,MEMBER,"> My particular use case is that have datasets that are large enough that I can't see the full diff, so might miss major changes. I'm wanting to pass in something like `lambda a, b: f""Largest difference in data is {abs(a-b).max().item()}""`, so I can quickly see if the changes are meaningful. Obviously a more complex function might also be useful, like a summary/describe table output of the differences..
> 

Whether or not we merge this, I would be a +1 on improving the output of the canonical function better, such that we can see differences easily. I would also imagine we can iterate on those without worrying about backward-compat, given this is generating output for people.

As an example, printing the result of the exact statement above for large arrays, maybe also with dimension values, would be great!","{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,945226829
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/5607#issuecomment-880889091,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5607,880889091,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg4MDg4OTA5MQ==,5635139,2021-07-15T17:40:11Z,2021-07-15T17:40:11Z,MEMBER,(if we do this we should make it kwarg-only),"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,945226829