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Pandas, Future Warning: Indexing with multiple keys

Pandas throws a Future Warning when I apply a function to multiple columns of a groupby object. It suggests to use a list as index instead of tuples. How would one go about this?

>>> df = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]])
>>> df.groupby([0,1])[1,2].apply(sum)
<stdin>:1: FutureWarning: Indexing with multiple keys (implicitly converted to a tuple of keys) will be deprecated, use a list instead.
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1 2  2  3
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7 8  8  9
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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This warning was introduced in pandas 1.0.0, following a discussion on GitHub. So best use what was suggested there:

df.groupby([0, 1])[[1, 2]].apply(sum)

It's also possible to move the slicing operation to the end, but that is not as efficient:

df.groupby([0, 1]).apply(sum).loc[:, 1:]

Thanks @ALollz and @cmosig for helpful comments.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Use double brackets after the groupby method. Single brackets are used to output a Pandas Series and double brackets are used to output a Pandas DataFrame.

df.groupby([0,1])[[1,2]].apply(sum)
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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