Description
This is needed in the get_indexer
implementation for the new IntervalIndex
behavior, as an overlapping IntervalIndex
may return non-unique indices for a given query. Note that this equivalent to other indexes checking is_unique
as part of get_indexer
, which does not suffice for IntervalIndex
for the aforementioned reason. Behavior and API design would be comparable to is_non_overlapping_monotonic
.
My plan is to implement this within the IntervalTree
to take advantage of some cached sorting that it performs, so it would not be implemented for IntervalArray
(we don't build an IntervalTree
there, as IntervalArray
is mutable, and doesn't need indexing methods). This could be implemented for IntervalArray
if need be but might not be quite as performant.