It's hard to extract coordinates of a Space as vectors

[Sbozzolo]

I would like to know the vertical coordiantes of a given space and I want the output as an Array (for plotting).

The simplest way I found is

Array(Fields.field2array(Spaces.coordinate_data(space).z))[:, 1]

This is much more complicated than it should be (and it uses parent).

[charleskawczynski]

Different spaces have different number of horizontal points, so the output array for different spaces would have a different number of dimensions.

Why would you want to do this in the first place? Maybe there are other things we can support so that converting fields to arrays is not necessary?

[Sbozzolo]

Why would you want to do this in the first place?

I encountered this multiple times when working with interpolation/plotting.