Can Pandas read the Excel group structure into Multiindex?… here is a solution to the problem.
Can Pandas read the Excel group structure into Multiindex?
I have an Excel file with some (mostly) nicely grouped rows. I’ve built a fake example below.
Is there a way to get read_excel in Pandas to generate multiple indexes that retain this structure?
For this example, MultiIndex will have four levels (Home, Personal, Child (optional), Investment). If you lose subtotals, that’s okay because they can be easily recreated in Pindas.
Solution
No, pandas cannot read such structures.
Another solution is to use pandas to read the data but convert it into an easily accessible dictionary instead of using MultiIndex to save the data in a data frame.
To make your data more useful, there are 2 reasonable requirements:
- Make your investment fund name unique. This is trivial.
- Convert your Excel grouping into an extra column that indicates the parent of the row.
In the following example, these 2 requirements are assumed.
Settings
from collections import defaultdict
from functools import reduce
import operator
import pandas as pd
df = pd. DataFrame({'name': ['Simpson Family', 'Marge Simpson', 'Maggies College Fund',
'MCF Investment 2', 'MS Investment 1', 'MS Investment 2', 'MS Investment 3',
'Homer Simpson', 'HS Investment 1', 'HS Investment 3', 'HS Investment 2',
'Griffin Family', 'Lois Griffin', 'LG Investment 2', 'LG Investment 3',
'Brian Giffin', 'BG Investment 3'],
'Value': [600, 450, 100, 100, 100, 200, 50, 150, 100, 50, 0, 200, 150, 100, 50, 50, 50],
'parent': ['Families', 'Simpson Family', 'Marge Simpson', 'Maggies College Fund',
'Marge Simpson', 'Marge Simpson', 'Marge Simpson', 'Simpson Family',
'Homer Simpson', 'Homer Simpson', 'Homer Simpson', 'Families',
'Griffin Family', 'Lois Griffin', 'Lois Griffin', 'Griffin Family',
'Brian Giffin']})
Value name parent
0 600 Simpson Family Families
1 450 Marge Simpson Simpson Family
2 100 Maggies College Fund Marge Simpson
3 100 MCF Investment 2 Maggies College Fund
4 100 MS Investment 1 Marge Simpson
5 200 MS Investment 2 Marge Simpson
6 50 MS Investment 3 Marge Simpson
7 150 Homer Simpson Simpson Family
8 100 HS Investment 1 Homer Simpson
9 50 HS Investment 3 Homer Simpson
10 0 HS Investment 2 Homer Simpson
11 200 Griffin Family Families
12 150 Lois Griffin Griffin Family
13 100 LG Investment 2 Lois Griffin
14 50 LG Investment 3 Lois Griffin
15 50 Brian Giffin Griffin Family
16 50 BG Investment 3 Brian Giffin
Step 1
Define a child -> parent dictionary and some utility functions:
child_parent_dict = df.set_index('name')['parent'].to_dict()
tree = lambda: defaultdict(tree)
d = tree()
def get_all_parents(child):
"""Get all parents from hierarchy structure"""
while child != 'Families':
child = child_parent_dict[child]
if child != 'Families':
yield child
def getFromDict(dataDict, mapList):
"""Iterate nested dictionary"""
return reduce(operator.getitem, mapList, dataDict)
def default_to_regular_dict(d):
"""Convert nested defaultdict to regular dict of dicts."""
if isinstance(d, defaultdict):
d = {k: default_to_regular_dict(v) for k, v in d.items()}
return d
Step 2
Apply this to your data frame. Use it to create a nested dictionary structure, which will make repeated queries more efficient.
df['structure'] = df['name'].apply(lambda x: ['Families'] + list(get_all_parents(x))[::-1])
for idx, row in df.iterrows():
getFromDict(d, row['structure'])[row['name']]['Value'] = row['Value']
res = default_to_regular_dict(d)
Result
Data frame
Value name parent \
0 600 Simpson Family Families
1 450 Marge Simpson Simpson Family
2 100 Maggies College Fund Marge Simpson
3 100 MCF Investment 2 Maggies College Fund
4 100 MS Investment 1 Marge Simpson
5 200 MS Investment 2 Marge Simpson
6 50 MS Investment 3 Marge Simpson
7 150 Homer Simpson Simpson Family
8 100 HS Investment 1 Homer Simpson
9 50 HS Investment 3 Homer Simpson
10 0 HS Investment 2 Homer Simpson
11 200 Griffin Family Families
12 150 Lois Griffin Griffin Family
13 100 LG Investment 2 Lois Griffin
14 50 LG Investment 3 Lois Griffin
15 50 Brian Giffin Griffin Family
16 50 BG Investment 3 Brian Giffin
structure
0 [Families]
1 [Families, Simpson Family]
2 [Families, Simpson Family, Marge Simpson]
3 [Families, Simpson Family, Marge Simpson, Magg...
4 [Families, Simpson Family, Marge Simpson]
5 [Families, Simpson Family, Marge Simpson]
6 [Families, Simpson Family, Marge Simpson]
7 [Families, Simpson Family]
8 [Families, Simpson Family, Homer Simpson]
9 [Families, Simpson Family, Homer Simpson]
10 [Families, Simpson Family, Homer Simpson]
11 [Families]
12 [Families, Griffin Family]
13 [Families, Griffin Family, Lois Griffin]
14 [Families, Griffin Family, Lois Griffin]
15 [Families, Griffin Family]
16 [Families, Griffin Family, Brian Giffin]
Dictionary
{'Families': {'Griffin Family': {'Brian Giffin': {'BG Investment 3': {'Value': 50},
'Value': 50},
'Lois Griffin': {'LG Investment 2': {'Value': 100}, 'LG Investment 3': {'Value': 50},
'Value': 150},
'Value': 200},
'Simpson Family': {'Homer Simpson': {'HS Investment 1': {'Value': 100}, 'HS Investment 2': {'Value': 0}, 'HS Investment 3': {'Value': 50},
'Value': 150},
'Marge Simpson': {'MS Investment 1': {'Value': 100}, 'MS Investment 2': {'Value': 200}, 'MS Investment 3': {'Value': 50},
'Maggies College Fund': {'MCF Investment 2': {'Value': 100},
'Value': 100},
'Value': 450},
'Value': 600}}}