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

MultiIndex. get_level_values(level)[source]

Return vector of label values for requested level, equal to the length of the index.

Parameters: level : int or str level is either the integer position of the level in the MultiIndex, or the name of the level.
Returns: values : Index values is a level of this MultiIndex converted to a single Index (or subclass thereof).

Examples

Create a MultiIndex:

mi = pd.MultiIndex.from_arrays((list('abc'), list('def'))) mi.names = ['level_1', 'level_2']

Get level values by supplying level as either integer or name:

mi.get_level_values(0) Index(['a', 'b', 'c'], dtype='object', name='level_1') mi.get_level_values('level_2') Index(['d', 'e', 'f'], dtype='object', name='level_2')