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in the current version renaming of MultiIndex DataFrames does not work. Lets take the following example:

import datetime as DT
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({
'Branch' : 'A A A A A B'.split(),
'Buyer': 'Carl Mark Carl Joe Mark Carl'.split(),
'Quantity': [1,3,5,8,9,3],
'Date' : [
    DT.datetime(2013,9,1,13,0),
    DT.datetime(2013,9,1,13,5),
    DT.datetime(2013,10,1,20,0),
    DT.datetime(2013,10,3,10,0),
    DT.datetime(2013,12,2,12,0),                                      
    DT.datetime(2013,12,2,14,0),
    ]})

test_df = df[df['Buyer'].isin(['Carl', 'Mark'])].set_index('Buyer', append=True)[['Date']].unstack(['Buyer'])

test_df.rename(columns={('Date', 'Carl'): 'Carl'}, inplace=True)