How to slice one MultiIndex DataFrame with the MultiIndex of another

Question

I have a pandas dataframe with 3 levels of a MultiIndex. I am trying to pull out rows of this dataframe according to a list of values that correspond to two of the levels.

Answer 1

I would recommend the query() method just like in this Q&A.

Simply using this, which I think is a more natural way to express:

In [27]: df.query("(b == 'foo' and c == 'can') or (b == 'bar' and c == 'baz')")
Out[27]: 
           hi
a b   c      
1 foo can   1
  bar baz   2
2 foo can   5
  bar baz   6
3 foo can   9
  bar baz  10