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105414928 MDU6SXNzdWUxMDU0MTQ5Mjg= 560 replace time coordinates for whole year 10194086 closed 0     3 2015-09-08T16:09:52Z 2015-09-08T16:40:52Z 2015-09-08T16:40:52Z MEMBER      

It is quite convenient to select a whole year ds.sel(time='1991'). However, sel should not be used to assign data. Thus you can not do ds.sel(time='1991').coords['time'] = time and ds[dict(time='1991')] does not work.

1) Should ds[dict(time='1991')] work?

2) A possible workaround is:

idx = xray.core.indexing.remap_label_indexers(ds, {'time' : '1999'}) ds[idx] = time

Should this be added to the documentation or is this case too uncommon?

 
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