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# pandas.errors.UnsortedIndexError

exception pandas.errors.UnsortedIndexError

  Error raised when slicing a MultiIndex which has not been lexsorted.

  Subclass of KeyError.

  Examples

      >>> df = pd.DataFrame({"cat": [0, 0, 1, 1],
      ...                    "color": ["white", "white", "brown", "black"],
      ...                    "lives": [4, 4, 3, 7]},
      ...                   )
      >>> df = df.set_index(["cat", "color"])
      >>> df
                  lives
      cat  color
      0    white    4
           white    4
      1    brown    3
           black    7
      >>> df.loc[(0, "black"):(1, "white")]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      UnsortedIndexError: 'Key length (2) was greater
      than MultiIndex lexsort depth (1)'