How to create a Multi-index dataframe

[msn009]

I would like to generate a multi index dataframe that looks like the image attached. how do i do this in python?

I tried this approach but it doesn't give me the output as expected:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28289440/creating-an-empty-multiindex

 

[StoneTemplePython]

I haven't gotten into the weeds of this in while, but I think what you're asking is simply not in Pandas. Pandas is designed, in effect, to be excel spreadsheets via python (with the added capabilities that come with it).

Spreadsheets are fundamentally indexed with (i,j) pairs. There is no third index. (You could try to synthetically creating such a thing via a mapping formula that you come up with though that sounds unpleasant).

If you want to use (i,j,k) indexing, this is 3-D tensor territory that is easy to manipulate via arrays in Numpy. It is not Pandas.