BUG: read_excel: incorrect multi-index values - 3

[kuraga]

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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel('test.xlsx', header=[0, 1], index_col=[0, 1])
print(df.index)
print(df.index)

(engine could be xlrd or openpyxl, doesn't matter.)

test.xlsx

Problem description

MultiIndex([(nan, nan),
            ('x', 'y')],
           names=['A', 'B'])
Index(['C', 'Unnamed: 3'], dtype='object')

Expected Output

I'm not sure exactly.

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : None
python : 3.7.7.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.4.42-calculate
machine : x86_64
processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : ru_RU.utf8
LOCALE : ru_RU.UTF-8

pandas : 1.0.3
numpy : 1.18.1
pytz : 2020.1
dateutil : 2.8.1
pip : 20.0.2
setuptools : 46.4.0.post20200518
Cython : 0.29.17
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 1.2.8
lxml.etree : 4.5.0
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 2.11.2
IPython : 7.13.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : None
bottleneck : None
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
lxml.etree : 4.5.0
matplotlib : 3.1.3
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.3
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pytables : None
pytest : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.4.1
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : 1.2.0
xlwt : None
xlsxwriter : 1.2.8
numba : None

[TomAugspurger]

@kuraga can you include the code to generate the test.xlsx file? We'd need that for a unit test anyway.

What's the expected ouput?

[kuraga]

@TomAugspurger I made them in LibreOffice Writer.

[mroeschke]

Let us know if could provide the expected output for this issue, going to close in the meantime due to inactivity.

[kuraga]

@mroeschke , which output is correct on your mind for this file?

[mroeschke]

I am not sure either what the result should be for this file. It's an oddly formatted file