Problem statement
Ignore missing variables when concatenating datasets?
Several users (@raj-kesavan, @richardotis, now myself) have wondered about how to concatenate xray Datasets with different variables.
With the current xray.concat, you need to awkwardly create dummy variables filled with NaN in datasets that don't have them (or drop mismatched variables entirely). Neither of these are great options -- concat should have an option (the default?) to take care of this for the user.
This would also be more consistent with pd.concat, which takes a more relaxed approach to matching dataframes with different variables (it does an outer join).
The environment starts at commit
863e49066ca4 (pydata/xarray 0.12), dependencies installed and tests runnable from the first minute. You are graded by hidden tests taken from the fix that was actually merged upstream.