xarray.Variable.load_async#

async Variable.load_async(**kwargs)[source]#

Trigger and await asynchronous loading of data into memory and return this variable.

Data will be computed and/or loaded from disk or a remote source.

Unlike .compute, the original variable is modified and returned.

Only works when opening data lazily from IO storage backends which support lazy asynchronous loading. Otherwise will raise a NotImplementedError.

Note users are expected to limit concurrency themselves - xarray does not internally limit concurrency in any way.

Parameters:: **kwargs (dict) – Additional keyword arguments passed on to dask.array.compute.
Returns:: object (Variable) – Same object but with lazy data as an in-memory array.