Creating complex nested dictionaries from Pandas DataFrame

Question

I\'m trying to find a generic way of creating (possibly deeply) nested dictionaries from a flat Pandas DataFrame instance.

Suppose I have the following DataFrame:

Answer 1

This is partial answer. I don't know how to convert the index to json.

df = pd.DataFrame({'name' : ['John', 'John', 'John', 'John', 'Henry', 'Henry'],
                    'age' : [24, 24, 24, 24, 31, 31],
                    'gender' : ['Male','Male','Male','Male','Male','Male'],
                    'study' : ['Mathematics', 'Mathematics', 'Mathematics', 'Philosophy', 'Physics', 'Physics'],
                    'course' : ['Calculus 101', 'Calculus 101', 'Calculus 102', 'Aristotelean Ethics', 'Quantum mechanics', 'Quantum mechanics'],
                    'test' : ['Exam', 'Essay','Exam','Essay', 'Exam1','Exam2'],
                    'pass' : [True, True, True, True, True, True],
                    'grade' : ['A', 'A', 'B', 'A', 'C', 'C']})
df.set_index(keys=['name','age','gender', 'study','course','test','grade','pass'], inplace=True)
df

Output: