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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1726#issuecomment-345408336 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1726 345408336 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM0NTQwODMzNg== 1217238 2017-11-18T01:39:12Z 2017-11-18T01:39:17Z MEMBER

Yes, this was an intentional choice, though not without occasional regrets!

This is nice from an consistency perspective: every operation on an xarray object returns another xarray object. Also, as you point out, this allows us to preserve metadata such as attributes or scalar coordinates.

I'm going to mark this as a documentation issue: this would be a great thing to add our docs somewhere (maybe the FAQ page?).

 
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