pandas.MultiIndex.from_tuples

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

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

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, u'red'), (1, u'blue'),
...           (2, u'red'), (2, u'blue')]
>>> pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(tuples, names=('number', 'color'))
MultiIndex(levels=[[1, 2], ['blue', 'red']],
           codes=[[0, 0, 1, 1], [1, 0, 1, 0]],
           names=['number', 'color'])