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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/947#issuecomment-244514745 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/947 244514745 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI0NDUxNDc0NQ== 4160723 2016-09-03T00:21:06Z 2016-09-03T00:21:06Z MEMBER

Rather than adding an independent name attribute to IndexVariable, let's deprecate/remove IndexVariable.name instead (I can do this in a follow-up PR). Clearly it's useful to be able to use IndexVariable objects even for objects that do not correspond to ticks along a dimension, but for such objects, name is misleading. IndexVariable.name was never more than a convenient shortcut, and it's outlived it's usefulness.

I agree that name is misleading here. If we remove IndexVariable.name, then we can modify IndexVariable.get_level_variable such that it accepts one or more level names and returns an OrderedDict of {level_name: IndexVariable} items. That would be even better than the current implementation. Maybe we should then rename get_level_variable to get_levels_as_variables?

 
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