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1389295853 I_kwDOAMm_X85Szvjt 7099 Pass arbitrary options to sel() 4160723 open 0     4 2022-09-28T12:44:52Z 2024-04-30T00:44:18Z   MEMBER      

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Currently .sel() accepts two options method and tolerance. These are relevant for default (pandas) indexes but not necessarily for other, custom indexes.

It would be also useful for custom indexes to expose their own selection options, e.g.,

  • index query optimization like the dualtree flag of sklearn.neighbors.KDTree.query
  • k-nearest neighbors selection with the creation of a new "k" dimension (+ coordinate / index) with user-defined name and size.

From #3223, it would be nice if we could also pass distinct options values per index.

What would be a good API for that?

Describe the solution you'd like

Some ideas:

A. Allow passing a tuple (labels, options_dict) as indexer value

python ds.sel(x=([0, 2], {"method": "nearest"}), y=3)

B. Expose an options kwarg that would accept a nested dict

python ds.sel(x=[0, 2], y=3, options={"x": {"method": "nearest"}})

Option A does not look very readable. Option B is slightly better, although the nested dictionary is not great.

Any other ideas? Some sort of context manager? Some Index specific API?

Describe alternatives you've considered

The API proposed in #3223 would look great if method and tolerance were the only accepted options, but less so for arbitrary options.

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