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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/5727#issuecomment-904597086,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5727,904597086,IC_kwDOAMm_X8416w5e,5802846,2021-08-24T12:28:18Z,2021-08-24T12:31:21Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"Thank you! You are right. I guess based on the docs for [Assigning values with indexing](http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/user-guide/indexing.html#assigning-values-with-indexing) I assumed only `.loc` features item assignment .  I vaguely remember there where issues with assigning via integer-based indexing. Well, propably my bad.

Should we add an example how to perform masking this way to the docs? There are many examples about masking using different ways, but not this simple, intuitive way.

Even now, it's not really clear to me why ""boolean""-masking should only work with integer-indexing and not label-indexing. Given that the highlighted `maybe_cast_to_coords_dtype` is the only reason it does not work for label-based indexing. 

edit: probably the reason is to support label-based indexing for boolean coords?!","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,976207971