result in a MultiIndex in the
        columns. See the :ref:`User Guide <reshaping>` for more on reshaping.

        Parameters
        ----------%s
        columns : str or object or a list of str
            Column to use to make new frame's columns.
        index : str or object or a list of str, optional
            Column to use to make new frame's index. If not given, uses existing index.
        values : str, object or a list of the previous, optional
            Column(s) to use for populating new frame's values. If not
            specified, all remaining columns will be used and the result will
            have hierarchically indexed columns.

        Returns
        -------
        DataFrame
            Returns reshaped DataFrame.

        Raises
        ------
        ValueError:
            When there are any `index`, `columns` combinations with multiple
            values. `DataFrame.pivot_table` when you need to aggregate.

        See Also
        --------
        DataFrame.pivot_table : Generalization of pivot that can handle
            duplicate values for one index/column pair.
        DataFrame.unstack : Pivot based on the index values instead of a
            column.
        wide_to_long : Wide panel to long format. Less flexible but more
            user-friendly than melt.

        Notes
        -----
        For finer-tuned control, see hierarchical indexing documentation along
        with the related stack/unstack methods.

        Reference :ref:`the user guide <reshaping.pivot>` for more examples.

        Examples
        --------
        >>> df = pd.DataFrame({'foo': ['one', 'one', 'one', 'two', 'two',
        ...                            'two'],
        ...                    'bar': ['A', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'B', 'C'],
        ...                    'baz': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
        ...                    'zoo': ['x', 'y', 'z', 'q', 'w', 't']})
        >>> df
            foo   bar  baz  zoo
        0   one   A    1    x
        1   one   B    2    y
        2   one   C    3    z
        3   two   A    4    q
        4   two   B    5    w
        5   two   C    6    t

        >>> df.pivot(index='foo', columns='bar', values='baz')
        bar  A   B   C
        foo
        one  1   2   3
        two  4   5   6

        >>> df.pivot(index='foo', columns='bar')['baz']
        bar  A   B   C
        foo
        one  1   2   3
        two  4   5   6

        >>> df.pivot(index='foo', columns='bar', values=['baz', 'zoo'])
              baz       zoo
        bar   A  B  C   A  B  C
        foo
        one   1  2  3   x  y  z
        two   4  5  6   q  w  t

        You could also assign a list of column names or a list of index names.

        >>> df = pd.DataFrame({
        ...        "lev1": [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2],
        ...        "lev2": [1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2],
        ...        "lev3": [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2],
        ...        "lev4": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
        ...        "values": [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]})
        >>> df
            lev1 lev2 lev3 lev4 values
        0   1    1    1    1    0
        1   1    1    2    2    1
        2   1    2    1    3    2
        3   2    1    2    4    3
        4   2    1    1    5    4
        5   2    2    2    6    5

        >>> df.pivot(index="lev1", columns=["lev2", "lev3"], values="values")
        lev2    1         2
        lev3    1    2    1    2
        lev1
        1     0.0  1.0  2.0  NaN
        2     4.0  3.0  NaN  5.0

        >>> df.pivot(index=["lev1", "lev2"], columns=["lev3"], values="values")
              lev3    1    2
        lev1  lev2
           1     1  0.0  1.0
                 2  2.0  NaN
           2     1  4.0  3.0
                 2  NaN  5.0

        A ValueError is raised if there are any duplicates.

        >>> df = pd.DataFrame({"foo": ['one', 'one', 'two', 'two'],
        ...                    "bar": ['A', 'A', 'B', 'C'],
        ...                    "baz": [1, 2, 3, 4]})
        >>> df
           foo bar  baz
        0  one   A    1
        1  one   A    2
        2  two   B    3
        3  two   C    4

        Notice that the first two rows are the same for our `index`
        and `columns` arguments.

        >>> df.pivot(index='foo', columns='bar', values='baz')
        Traceback (most recent call last):
           ...
        ValueError: Index contains duplicate entries, cannot reshape
        