On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 00:21 Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: > > This raises a question that needs to be answered, then: what would be the > utility of mixing together positional and kwd arguments in this way? > > Even the xarray examples given so far don't seem to make use of this > mixture. From my knowledge of pandas I am not sure what the meaning of > this would be, either. >
For xarray an index can have a position, a label, or both. So being able to mix positional and label-based indexing is important. I just didn't include that in the examples because I was focusing on the advantage of label-based indexing. >
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