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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/3258#issuecomment-525384446 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3258 525384446 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUyNTM4NDQ0Ng== 1217238 2019-08-27T16:40:32Z 2019-08-27T16:40:32Z MEMBER
  • could we call it just "map"? It makes sense as this thing would be very useful for non-dask based arrays too. Working routinely with scipy (chiefly with scipy.stats transforms), I tire a lot of writing very verbose xarray.apply_ufunc calls.

I agree that apply_ufunc is overly verbose. See https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1074 and https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1618 (and issues linked therein) for discussion about alternative APIs.

I still think this particular set of functionality should be called map_blocks, because it works by applying functions over each block, very similar to dask's map_blocks.

 
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