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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1472#issuecomment-314007170 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1472 314007170 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNDAwNzE3MA== 1217238 2017-07-10T05:09:05Z 2017-07-10T05:09:05Z MEMBER

drop=True is actually intended to control dropping scalar coordinates, but the result of indexing with '2012' isn't producing a scalar. In this case, what you need is to squeeze out the length one dimension, with .squeeze().

The counter intuitive behavior you are seeing for indexing with a string for a year like arr.sel(time='2012') is something we inherit upstream from pandas: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/timeseries.html#slice-vs-exact-match

 
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