sortby with multiple coords using different orders
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Description
What is your issue?
sortby with multiple coords using different orders, just like pandas sort_values allow for ascending to be a list of bools describing the order to sort each columm
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Research direction
Start at xarray's sortby entry point and compare the requested behavior with the linked pandas sort_values documentation. Support an ascending list of booleans for multiple coordinates with different orders, then verify the behavior with coverage for mixed ascending and descending coordinate sorts.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- pandas, python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100