Turn Pandas Multi-Index into column

Question

I have a dataframe with 2 index levels:

                         value
Trial    measurement
    1              0        13
                   1         3
                   2         4
    2              0       NaN
                   1        12
    3              0        34 

Which I want to turn into this:

Trial    measurement       value

    1              0        13
    1              1         3
    1              2         4
    2              0       NaN
    2              1        12
    3              0        34 

How can I best do this?

I need this because I want to aggregate the data as instructed here, but I can't select my columns like that if they are in use as indices.

Answer 1

The reset_index() is a pandas DataFrame method that will transfer index values into the DataFrame as columns. The default setting for the parameter is drop=False (which will keep the index values as columns).

All you have to do add .reset_index(inplace=True) after the name of the DataFrame:

df.reset_index(inplace=True)