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52798640 MDU6SXNzdWU1Mjc5ODY0MA== 300 Should we support attribute style setting of variables or attributes? 1217238 closed 0     1 2014-12-24T06:21:19Z 2015-11-10T05:42:30Z 2015-11-10T05:42:30Z MEMBER      

This is a follow on to #286 (attribute style access).

For example, should we support assignments like ds.tmin.units = 'degrees C'?

There is some ambiguity here, because, for example, something like ds.foo = 3 could either mean adding a scalar variable or an a global attribute.

We could define some heuristic rules, or simply require the more explicit ds.attrs.foo = 3 for assigning attributes.

 
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