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517195073 MDU6SXNzdWU1MTcxOTUwNzM= 3483 assign_coords with mixed DataArray / array args removes coords 14808389 open 0     5 2019-11-04T14:38:40Z 2019-11-07T15:46:15Z   MEMBER      

I'm not sure if using assign_coords to overwrite the data of coords is the best way to do so, but using mixed args (on current master) turns out to have surprising results: ```python

obj = xr.DataArray( ... data=[6, 3, 4, 6], ... coords={"x": list("abcd"), "y": ("x", range(4))}, ... dims="x", ... ) obj <xarray.DataArray 'obj' (x: 4)> array([6, 3, 4, 6]) Coordinates: * x (x) <U1 'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' y (x) int64 0 1 2 3

works as expected

obj.assign_coords(coords={"x": list("efgh"), "y": ("x", [0, 2, 4, 6])}) <xarray.DataArray 'obj' (x: 4)> array([6, 3, 4, 6]) Coordinates: * x (x) <U1 'e' 'f' 'g' 'h' y (x) int64 0 2 4 6

works, too (same as .data / .values)

obj.assign_coords(coords={ ... "x": obj.x.copy(data=list("efgh")).variable, ... "y": ("x", [0, 2, 4, 6]), ... }) <xarray.DataArray 'obj' (x: 4)> array([6, 3, 4, 6]) Coordinates: * x (x) <U1 'e' 'f' 'g' 'h' y (x) int64 0 2 4 6

this drops "y"

obj.assign_coords(coords={ ... "x": obj.x.copy(data=list("efgh")), ... "y": ("x", [0, 2, 4, 6]), ... }) <xarray.DataArray 'obj' (x: 4)> array([6, 3, 4, 6]) Coordinates: * x (x) <U1 'e' 'f' 'g' 'h' Passing a `DataArray` for `y`, like `obj.y * 2` while also changing `x` (the type does not matter) always results in a `MergeError`:python obj.assign_coords(x=list("efgh"), y=obj.y * 2) xarray.core.merge.MergeError: conflicting values for index 'x' on objects to be combined: first value: Index(['e', 'f', 'g', 'h'], dtype='object', name='x') second value: Index(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], dtype='object', name='x') ```

I would expect the result to be the same regardless of the type of the new coords.

 
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