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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? 

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