On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 02:58:28PM -0400, Todd wrote:

> If xarray supports keyword arguments, this would assign to the
> corresponding values.  If it didn't, it would create a new element of the
> Dataset containing "y[a=2, b=3]".  But "y" would continue working as it
> would, only with different values than expected.

Thanks Todd, that's an excellent example of how an unexpected change 
could lead to code doing the wrong thing instead of a nice, easy to 
diagnose exception.


-- 
Steve
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