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262642978 MDU6SXNzdWUyNjI2NDI5Nzg= 1603 Explicit indexes in xarray's data-model (Future of MultiIndex) 6815844 closed 0   741199 68 2017-10-04T01:51:47Z 2022-09-28T09:24:20Z 2022-09-28T09:24:20Z MEMBER      

I think we can continue the discussion we have in #1426 about MultiIndex here.

In comment , @shoyer recommended to remove MultiIndex from public API.

I agree with this, as long as my codes work with this improvement.

I think if we could have a list of possible MultiIndex use cases here, it would be easier to deeply discuss and arrive at a consensus of the future API.

Current limitations of MultiIndex are + It drops scalar coordinate after selection #1408, #1491 + It does not support to serialize to NetCDF #1077 + Stack/unstack behaviors are inconsistent #1431

 
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