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 544375718,MDU6SXNzdWU1NDQzNzU3MTg=,3659,Error concatenating Multiindex variables,14136435,open,0,,,1,2020-01-01T16:36:26Z,2021-07-08T17:43:57Z,,CONTRIBUTOR,,,,"#### MCVE Code Sample ```python >>> import xarray as xr >>> da = xr.DataArray([0, 1], dims=[""location""], coords={""lat"": (""location"", [10, 11]), ""lon"": (""location"", [20, 21])}).set_index(location=[""lat"", ""lon""]) >>> da2 = xr.DataArray([2, 3], dims=[""location""], coords={""lat"": (""location"", [12, 13]), ""lon"": (""location"", [22, 23])}).set_index(location=[""lat"", ""lon""]) >>> xr.concat([da[""location""], da2[""location""]], dim=""location"") Traceback (most recent call last): File """", line 1, in File ""/home/harry/code/xarray/xarray/core/concat.py"", line 135, in concat return f(objs, dim, data_vars, coords, compat, positions, fill_value, join) File ""/home/harry/code/xarray/xarray/core/concat.py"", line 431, in _dataarray_concat ds = _dataset_concat( File ""/home/harry/code/xarray/xarray/core/concat.py"", line 384, in _dataset_concat result = Dataset(result_vars, attrs=result_attrs) File ""/home/harry/code/xarray/xarray/core/dataset.py"", line 541, in __init__ variables, coord_names, dims, indexes = merge_data_and_coords( File ""/home/harry/code/xarray/xarray/core/merge.py"", line 466, in merge_data_and_coords return merge_core( File ""/home/harry/code/xarray/xarray/core/merge.py"", line 556, in merge_core assert_unique_multiindex_level_names(variables) File ""/home/harry/code/xarray/xarray/core/variable.py"", line 2363, in assert_unique_multiindex_level_names raise ValueError(""conflicting MultiIndex level name(s):\n%s"" % conflict_str) ValueError: conflicting MultiIndex level name(s): 'lat' (location), 'lat' () 'lon' (location), 'lon' () ``` #### Expected Output The output should be the same as first concatenating the DataArrays, then extracting the dimension location: ```python >>> xr.concat([da, da2], dim=""location"")[""location""] array([(10, 20), (11, 21), (12, 22), (13, 23)], dtype=object) Coordinates: * location (location) MultiIndex - lat (location) int64 10 11 12 13 - lon (location) int64 20 21 22 23 ``` #### Problem Description ```python >>> # da[""location""] looks like a normal DataArray >>> location = da[""location""] >>> location array([(10, 20), (11, 21)], dtype=object) Coordinates: * location (location) MultiIndex - lat (location) int64 10 11 - lon (location) int64 20 21 >>> # but in actual fact, the variable._data is a MultiIndex >>> location.variable._data PandasIndexAdapter(array=MultiIndex([(10, 20), (11, 21)], names=['lat', 'lon']), dtype=dtype('O')) ``` This is why an error is thrown: `variable.assert_unique_multiindex_level_names` gets passed two variables: `location.variable` (the DataArray data values), and also `location[""location""].variable` (the coordinate values), which are both MultiIndexes. #### Output of ``xr.show_versions()``
INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: b3d3b4480b7fb63402eb6c02103bb8d6c7dbf93a python: 3.8.0 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Nov 22 2019, 19:11:38) [GCC 7.3.0] python-bits: 64 OS: Linux OS-release: 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft machine: x86_64 processor: x86_64 byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE: en_US.UTF-8 libhdf5: None libnetcdf: None xarray: 0.14.1+36.gb3d3b44 pandas: 0.25.3 numpy: 1.18.0 scipy: None netCDF4: None pydap: None h5netcdf: None h5py: None Nio: None zarr: None cftime: None nc_time_axis: None PseudoNetCDF: None rasterio: None cfgrib: None iris: None bottleneck: None dask: 2.9.1 distributed: 2.9.1 matplotlib: None cartopy: None seaborn: None numbagg: None setuptools: 42.0.2.post20191201 pip: 19.3.1 conda: None pytest: 5.3.2 IPython: None sphinx: None
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