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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/4489#issuecomment-831811778,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4489,831811778,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgzMTgxMTc3OA==,10563614,2021-05-04T09:37:50Z,2021-05-04T09:37:50Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"yes, no problem, take your time. This is still a wanted feature in any case, I've recently needed it again. I've found a solution by converting the real index to integer after adequate scaling, but an integrated solution would be much better.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,715168959
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/4489#issuecomment-831809607,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4489,831809607,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgzMTgwOTYwNw==,4160723,2021-05-04T09:33:56Z,2021-05-04T09:33:56Z,MEMBER,"Sorry for the very long wait @ghislainp.

This looks like a great case for the ongoing flexible indexes refactor (see [design notes](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/master/design_notes/flexible_indexes_notes.md), #4979). This refactor consists of abstracting away index operations like label-based selection and alignment and delegate them to (built-in or 3rd-party) `xarray.Index` subclasses.

After the refactoring, I think that what you propose here would nicely fit in `PandasIndex` (see #5102) if that's a common case, or perhaps better in its own `xarray.Index` subclass.

Would you mind waiting a bit more for the new flexible index system to be operational before adding this feature? This will make the refactoring easier. Also, we still need to figure out how best to expose index-specific options (like `tolerance` here, but it could be various options depending on the index) in parts of the xarray API like `align`, so it might be best if we can avoid breaking changes and/or depreciation cycles as much as possible until then.


","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,715168959
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/4489#issuecomment-708517335,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4489,708517335,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwODUxNzMzNQ==,2448579,2020-10-14T16:31:02Z,2020-10-14T16:31:02Z,MEMBER,"Thanks @ghislainp . This is a substantial change, so it may take some time for one of us to look through it. Thank you for your patience.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,715168959