n. sortorder : int or None Level of sortedness (must be lexicographically sorted by that level). names : list / sequence of str, optional Names for the levels in the index. Returns ------- MultiIndex See Also -------- MultiIndex.from_arrays : Convert list of arrays to MultiIndex. MultiIndex.from_product : Make a MultiIndex from cartesian product of iterables. MultiIndex.from_frame : Make a MultiIndex from a DataFrame. Examples -------- >>> tuples = [(1, 'red'), (1, 'blue'), ... (2, 'red'), (2, 'blue')] >>> pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(tuples, names=('number', 'color')) MultiIndex([(1, 'red'), (1, 'blue'), (2, 'red'), (2, 'blue')], names=['number', 'color']) z/Input must be a list / sequence of tuple-likes..c