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Would it be less confusing to use the CF terminology? I am leaning toward making this shift, because netCDF already has defined the term "variable", and xray's code still uses that internally. From a practical perspective, this would mean renaming Dataset.vars to Dataset.data_vars.
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Use "coordinate variables"/"data variables" instead of "coordinates"/"data"?
Use "coordinate variables"/"data variables" instead of "coordinates"/"variables"?
Dec 12, 2014
Recently, we introduced a distinction between "coordinates" and "variables" (see #197).
CF conventions make an analogous distinction between "coordinate variables" and "data variables":
http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.6/build/cf-conventions.html
Would it be less confusing to use the CF terminology? I am leaning toward making this shift, because netCDF already has defined the term "variable", and xray's code still uses that internally. From a practical perspective, this would mean renaming
Dataset.vars
toDataset.data_vars
.CC @akleeman @ToddSmall
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