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Reproducible Example
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(
{
"model": ["model1", "model2"],
"second_index": [(1, 2), (3, 4)],
"first_index": [0, 1],
}
)
df = df.set_index(["first_index", "second_index"], append=True)
df.to_parquet("temp.parquet")
pd.read_parquet("temp.parquet") # >> KeyError
import polars as pl
pl.read_parquet('temp.parquet') #--> OK
Issue Description
I am writing a dataframe with a multiindex, some level of the multiindex contains tuples.
I can save it to parquet, and the obtained parquet seems to be valid since polars reads it correctly.
I can't load it back to pandas, it produces a key error.
Expected Behavior
I expected pd.read_parquet to give batck the df from df.to_parquet. This produces the correct result:
df = pl.read_parquet("temp.parquet").to_pandas()
df["second_index"] = df["second_index"].apply(lambda x: tuple(x))
df = df.set_index(["first_index", "second_index"])
Installed Versions
INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
commit : 2cc37625532045f4ac55b27176454bbbc9baf213
python : 3.12.10
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.15.0-139-generic
Version : #149-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 11 22:06:13 UTC 2025
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : C.UTF-8
LOCALE : C.UTF-8
pandas : 2.3.0
numpy : 1.26.4
pytz : 2025.2
dateutil : 2.9.0.post0
pip : 25.1.1
Cython : 3.1.2
sphinx : None
IPython : 9.3.0
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : 4.13.4
blosc : None
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : 2024.11.0
fsspec : 2024.9.0
html5lib : None
hypothesis : None
gcsfs : None
jinja2 : 3.1.6
lxml.etree : 5.4.0
matplotlib : 3.10.3
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
psycopg2 : None
pymysql : None
pyarrow : 20.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pytest : 7.4.4
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.16.0
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : 0.9.0
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlsxwriter : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2025.2
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None
Comment From: Jopestpe
replace
df.to_parquet("temp.parquet")
with
df.reset_index().to_parquet("temp.parquet")
it worked for me, maybe it works for you too.