le   3.333333  0.055556
rectangle  2.500000  0.027778

Subtract a list and Series by axis with operator version.

>>> df - [1, 2]
           angles  degrees
circle         -1      358
triangle        2      178
rectangle       3      358

>>> df.sub([1, 2], axis='columns')
           angles  degrees
circle         -1      358
triangle        2      178
rectangle       3      358

>>> df.sub(pd.Series([1, 1, 1], index=['circle', 'triangle', 'rectangle']),
...        axis='index')
           angles  degrees
circle         -1      359
triangle        2      179
rectangle       3      359

Multiply a dictionary by axis.

>>> df.mul({{'angles': 0, 'degrees': 2}})
            angles  degrees
circle           0      720
triangle         0      360
rectangle        0      720

>>> df.mul({{'circle': 0, 'triangle': 2, 'rectangle': 3}}, axis='index')
            angles  degrees
circle           0        0
triangle         6      360
rectangle       12     1080

Multiply a DataFrame of different shape with operator version.

>>> other = pd.DataFrame({{'angles': [0, 3, 4]}},
...                      index=['circle', 'triangle', 'rectangle'])
>>> other
           angles
circle          0
triangle        3
rectangle       4

>>> df * other
           angles  degrees
circle          0      NaN
triangle        9      NaN
rectangle      16      NaN

>>> df.mul(other, fill_value=0)
           angles  degrees
circle          0      0.0
triangle        9      0.0
rectangle      16      0.0

Divide by a MultiIndex by level.

>>> df_multindex = pd.DataFrame({{'angles': [0, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6],
...                              'degrees': [360, 180, 360, 360, 540, 720]}},
...                             index=[['A', 'A', 'A', 'B', 'B', 'B'],
...                                    ['circle', 'triangle', 'rectangle',
...                                     'square', 'pentagon', 'hexagon']])
>>> df_multindex
             angles  degrees
A circle          0      360
  triangle        3      180
  rectangle       4      360
B square          4      360
  pentagon        5      540
  hexagon         6      720

>>> df.div(df_multindex, level=1, fill_value=0)
             angles  degrees
A circle        NaN      1.0
  triangle      1.0      1.0
  rectangle     1.0      1.0
B square        0.0      0.0
  pentagon      0.0      0.0
  hexagon       0.0      0.0
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