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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3432#issuecomment-545197414,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3432,545197414,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU0NTE5NzQxNA==,1217238,2019-10-22T23:24:45Z,2019-10-22T23:24:45Z,MEMBER,"I think the right long-term solution for xarray is to always store separate `Variable` objects for MultiIndex levels, and only use the MultiIndex for proper indexing. When you index out a single value, the MultiIndex will naturally disappear and you'll be left with a bunch of scalar coordinates, without any special case logic to handle the MultiIndex.

This looks like @crusaderky's third option.

We'll need to finish up the big ""explicit indexes"" refactor first to make this viable.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,510844652