id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,active_lock_reason,draft,pull_request,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,state_reason,repo,type 263403430,MDU6SXNzdWUyNjM0MDM0MzA=,1613,Should sel with slice objects care about underlying coordinate order?,25015426,open,0,,,22,2017-10-06T10:35:29Z,2023-10-23T18:50:54Z,,CONTRIBUTOR,,,,"If I have a xarray DataArray, that has x-coordinates in descending order, and I try to crop the DataArray using `da.sel(x=slice(10,50))`, it gives me empty DataArray. If I use `da.sel(x=slice(50,10))`, it finds everything it is supposed to find. I think it would be useful to be able to use this feature without knowing the exact order of the DataArray. Is this intentional? ","{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1613/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,,13221727,issue