ERR: invalid MultiIndex construction #17464
Labels
Error Reporting
Incorrect or improved errors from pandas
good first issue
Indexing
Related to indexing on series/frames, not to indexes themselves
MultiIndex
Milestone
Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible
For display
Problem description
Taken from this StackOverflow post:
Given the following dataframe
the
.xs
operation will selectwhilst the
.loc
operation will selectThis is highlighted even further by the following
Expected Output
Note that this only works for this minimal example because there is only one label in level 0 index axis
Output of
pd.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit: None
python: 2.7.13.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Windows
OS-release: 7
machine: AMD64
processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 79 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: None
LOCALE: None.None
pandas: 0.20.3
pytest: 3.0.7
pip: 9.0.1
setuptools: 36.2.7
Cython: 0.25.2
numpy: 1.13.1
scipy: 0.19.0
xarray: None
IPython: 5.3.0
sphinx: 1.5.6
patsy: 0.4.1
dateutil: 2.6.1
pytz: 2017.2
blosc: None
bottleneck: 1.2.1
tables: 3.2.2
numexpr: 2.6.2
feather: None
matplotlib: 2.0.2
openpyxl: 2.4.7
xlrd: 1.0.0
xlwt: 1.2.0
xlsxwriter: 0.9.6
lxml: 3.7.3
bs4: 4.6.0
html5lib: 0.999
sqlalchemy: 1.1.9
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.9.6
s3fs: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: 0.5.0
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