pandas.MultiIndex.from_tuples#

classmethodMultiIndex.from_tuples(tuples, sortorder=None, names=None)[source] #

Convert list of tuples to MultiIndex.

Parameters:

tupleslist / sequence of tuple-likes

Each tuple is the index of one row/column.

sortorderint or None

Level of sortedness (must be lexicographically sorted by that level).

nameslist / sequence of str, optional

Names for the levels in the index.

Returns:

MultiIndex

See also

MultiIndex.from_arrays

Convert list of arrays to MultiIndex.

MultiIndex.from_product

Make a MultiIndex from cartesian product of iterables.

MultiIndex.from_frame

Make a MultiIndex from a DataFrame.

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'])