pydata / pydata/xarray

Using a tuple as a sequence in DataArray.sel no longer supported?

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Since Aug 31, 2022.

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Description

What happened?

Version 2022.6.0 produces an error when I try something like data_array.sel(coordintate=(val1, val2)). Now this only works if the sequence values are provided as a list instead.

What did you expect to happen?

In previous versions, tuples could also be supplied. However, I've been digging into this a bit, and I understand that there are generally some limitations on using tuples (or rather, they are sometimes overloaded). For example, it seems that in any version, I can't use a tuple as an input coordinate to initialize a DataArray, as I get an error Could not convert tuple of form (dims, data[, attrs, encoding]) (this is known). I wanted to report the current bug however since the behavior is different in 2022.6.0 compared to previous versions, and to clarify whether not supporting tuples as sel coordinates is expected or not. It is not very clear from the error message and from the docs. The example below works on < 2022.6.0 but raises an error on 2022.6.0.

Minimal Complete Verifiable Example
import xarray as xr
import numpy as np
arr = xr.DataArray(data=np.random.rand(10), coords={"c1": np.arange(10, dtype=np.float64)})
item = arr.sel(c1=(1, 2))
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Environment

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None
python: 3.9.12 (main, Jun 1 2022, 11:38:51)
[GCC 7.5.0]
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 5.13.0-52-generic
machine: x86_64
processor: x86_64
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE: ('en_US', 'UTF-8')
libhdf5: 1.12.2
libnetcdf: None

xarray: 2022.6.0
pandas: 1.4.3
numpy: 1.23.0
scipy: 1.8.1
netCDF4: None
pydap: None
h5netcdf: None
h5py: 3.7.0
Nio: None
zarr: None
cftime: None
nc_time_axis: None
PseudoNetCDF: None
rasterio: None
cfgrib: None
iris: None
bottleneck: None
dask: 2022.6.1
distributed: None
matplotlib: 3.5.2
cartopy: None
seaborn: None
numbagg: None
fsspec: 2022.5.0
cupy: None
pint: None
sparse: None
flox: None
numpy_groupies: None
setuptools: 61.2.0
pip: 21.2.4
conda: None
pytest: 7.1.2
IPython: 8.4.0
sphinx: None

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