How to get the shape of a xarray dataset by using dims labels

Question

Is there a more elegant way than this to get a tuple of the shape of some dimensions of an xarray dataset?

tuple(dict(ds[['X', 'Y']].dims).values())

Answer 1

For an xarray.Dataset, you can do this:

tuple(ds.dims[d] for d in ['X', 'Y'])

This has the advantage of not subsetting the dataset or relying on the dimensions to be coordinates as well.