Pandas dataframe with MultiIndex: exclude level values

Question

I have a multi-indexed pandas dataframe like the following one.

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

arrays = [np.array(['bar', 'bar', 'bar', 'bar', 'foo', 'foo', 'qux', 'qux']),
          np.array(['one', 'two', 'one', 'two', 'one', 'two', 'one', 'two']),
          np.array(['blo', 'bla', 'bla', 'blo', 'blo', 'blu', 'blo', 'bla'])]

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 4), index=arrays)

df.sort_index(inplace=True)

which returns:

                    0         1         2         3
bar one bla  0.478461  1.030308  0.012688  0.137495
        blo  0.476041 -1.679848  1.346798  0.143225
    two bla  1.148882 -2.074197 -2.567959  1.258016
        blo  1.062280  3.846096 -0.346636  1.170822
foo one blo -0.761327  0.262105  0.151554  1.066616
    two blu  1.431951  0.043307 -0.326498  2.402536
qux one blo -0.622017 -0.566930  0.417977 -0.345238
    two bla  0.129273 -0.181396 -0.758381  0.995827

Now I want to select a subset by using a slice object:

idx = pd.IndexSlice
subset = df.loc[idx[['bar'], :, :], :]

This returns:

                    0         1         2         3
bar one bla  0.478461  1.030308  0.012688  0.137495
        blo  0.476041 -1.679848  1.346798  0.143225
    two bla  1.148882 -2.074197 -2.567959  1.258016
        blo  1.062280  3.846096 -0.346636  1.170822

Now I want to exclude all rows having "blo" as level value. I know that I could select everything but the 'blo' values but my real dataframe is very big and I only know the level values which should not appear in the subset.

What's the easiest way to exclude certain level values from the subset?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

IIUC, maybe you can mask your subset with:

subset = subset.iloc[subset.index.get_level_values(2) != 'blo']

Answer 2

You can do it this way:

In [263]:
subset.loc[subset.index.get_level_values(2) != 'blo']

Out[263]:
                    0         1         2         3
bar one bla -1.039335 -1.124656  0.057114 -0.284754
    two bla  0.007208 -0.403559 -1.317075 -0.340171