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Description
Currently pandas supports a lot of str accessors that xarray doesn't. Many of them have useful functionality. I think it would be good if the xarray had more of these str accessors. I would be willing to begin working on this.
There seem to be three categories. One that has a one-to-one mapping between input and output (so one input element becomes one output element), and one that has a one-to-many mapping (one input element becomes multiple output elements), and one that has a many-to-one mapping (multiple input elements become one output element). Exactly how the one-to-many mapping should be handling, if at all, is an open issue. Some of the many-to-one mappings (specifically join) would need a dimension argument.
One-to-one
- casefold(self)
- normalize(self, form)
One-to-many
- extract(self, pat[, flags, expand])
- extractall(self, pat[, flags])
- findall(self, pat[, flags])
- get_dummies(self[, sep])
- partition(self[, sep, expand])
- rpartition(self[, sep, expand])
- rsplit(self[, pat, n, expand])
- split(self[, pat, n, expand])
Many-to-one
- cat(self[, others, sep, na_rep, join])
- join(self, sep)