html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1465#issuecomment-310884145,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1465,310884145,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxMDg4NDE0NQ==,1217238,2017-06-25T05:45:30Z,2017-06-25T05:45:30Z,MEMBER,"I agree that this is somewhat surprising, but as @fmaussion points out this slicing behavior is consistent with pandas (and Python more generally, nothing that `range(5)[3:1]` is empty). `slice` is a Python built-in, so we can't adjust it. What we could potentially do is add a new keyboard argument to `.sel()` (or add a new indexing method entirely).","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,238317455