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823930834 MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0NTg2MjYxOTgz 5007 Rename map_blocks tasks. 2448579 closed 0     2 2021-03-07T14:27:58Z 2021-03-26T15:58:57Z 2021-03-26T15:58:56Z MEMBER   0 pydata/xarray/pulls/5007

This makes it clearer which tasks are subsetting xarray objects, vs. actually running the user provided function.

  • [ ] Tests added
  • [x] Passes pre-commit run --all-files
  • [ ] User visible changes (including notable bug fixes) are documented in whats-new.rst
  • [ ] New functions/methods are listed in api.rst

```python import dask

import xarray as xr

da = xr.DataArray( dask.array.zeros((10,), chunks=(3,)), dims="dim_0", coords={"a": (("dim_0",), np.arange(10))}, name="data" )

def func(a): return a.dim_0

da.map_blocks(func).data.visualize() ```

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