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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6837#issuecomment-1196850508 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6837 1196850508 IC_kwDOAMm_X85HVn1M 14808389 2022-07-27T14:40:54Z 2022-07-27T14:43:31Z MEMBER

Yeah, deprecating return values is not fun. We somewhat recently did that for Dataset.update and found that we could only mention this in the documentation / release notes, which is not great for visibility.

Interestingly, the docstring of Dataset.compute and Dataset.load compare with each other, while for the methods on DataArray and Variable that comparison is missing. None of them actually link to the other method, though.

Given that we have been removing inplace operations as much as possible, I'd vote to remove load entirely or make it an alias of compute.

Edit: up until I read this issue, I somehow assumed compute would only work with dask while load would also load our lazy array implementation into memory. Not sure how I got that impression, but maybe that's another argument to remove / align load?

 
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