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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/7323#issuecomment-1328142597 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7323 1328142597 IC_kwDOAMm_X85PKdkF 83403825 2022-11-27T00:48:34Z 2022-11-27T02:00:10Z NONE

I'm not sure if this breaks the data model of xarray leaving inconsistent sizes?

Also this seems like a very corner usecase, I don't think it is intended to write DataArrays in ASCII.

But I let some more senior devs of xarray be the judge here :)

Made these for work (big data, government). Is useful when trying to provide data values back to end user after all data manipulation has been done. (Aka the initial Xarray.DataArray is not longer needed)

best native solution that exists (from what I see) is .to_dict() which is memory inefficient. (Had memory errors at work when trying, hence all the tests provided in the gist). Basically a user can call to_dict with data = false and then add the data values using the above 2 functions to the resulting dictionary in a more memory efficient way.

Use cases would be in any web service that would like to provide the final data values back to a user in JSON.

 
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