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34352255 MDU6SXNzdWUzNDM1MjI1NQ== 142 Rename "coordinates" to "indices"? 1217238 closed 0   650893 2 2014-05-27T08:47:51Z 2014-07-10T09:38:26Z 2014-06-22T00:44:26Z MEMBER      

For users of pandas, the xray interface would be more obvious if we referred to what we currently call "coordinates" as "indices."

This would entail renaming the coordinates property to indices, xray.Coordinate to xray.Index and the xray.Coordinate.as_index property to as_pandas_index (all with deprecation warnings).

Possible downsides: 1. The xray data model would be less obvious to people familiar with the NetCDF. 2. There is some potential for confusion between xray.Index and pandas.Index: - The only real difference is that xray's Index is a xray.Variable object, and thus is dimension aware and has attributes. - In principle, xray.Index should have all the necessary properties to act like an index (or rather, it already has most of these properties and should get the rest). - Unfortunately, pandas doesn't accept non-pandas.Index objects as indices, nor will it properly convert an xray.Index into a pandas.Index.

 
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