pandas.MultiIndex.from_product — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)

classmethod MultiIndex. from_product(iterables, sortorder=None, names=None)[source]

Make a MultiIndex from the cartesian product of multiple iterables.

Parameters: iterables : list / sequence of iterables Each iterable has unique labels for each level of the index. sortorder : int or None Level of sortedness (must be lexicographically sorted by that level). names : list / sequence of str, optional Names for the levels in the index.
Returns: index : MultiIndex

Examples

numbers = [0, 1, 2] colors = ['green', 'purple'] pd.MultiIndex.from_product([numbers, colors], ... names=['number', 'color']) MultiIndex(levels=[[0, 1, 2], ['green', 'purple']], labels=[[0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2], [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]], names=['number', 'color'])