pandas.MultiIndex.from_tuples — pandas 0.25.3 documentation (original) (raw)

classmethod MultiIndex. from_tuples(tuples, sortorder=None, names=None)[source]

Convert list of tuples to MultiIndex.

Parameters: tuples : list / sequence of tuple-likes Each tuple is the index of one row/column. 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

tuples = [(1, 'red'), (1, 'blue'), ... (2, 'red'), (2, 'blue')] pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(tuples, names=('number', 'color')) MultiIndex([(1, 'red'), (1, 'blue'), (2, 'red'), (2, 'blue')], names=['number', 'color'])