Can sub-columns be created in a pandas data frame?

Question

Data frame

I am working with a data frame in Jupyter Notebooks and I am having some difficulty with it. The data frame consists of locations and these are represented by

Answer 1

I think need here MultiIndex created by MultiIndex.from_product:

mux = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([['Start','Intermediary','End'], ['lat','lng']])
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=mux)

EDIT:

Setup:

temp=u"""                          start                                   intermediary                           end
('54.957055',' -7.740156')        ('54.956915136264', ' -7.753690062122')     ('54.957055','-7.740156')
('54.8913208', '-7.5740475')    ('54.864402885577', '-7.653445692445'),('54','0')   ('54.8913208','-7.5740475')
('55.2375819', '-7.2357427')     ('55.253936739337', '-7.259624609577'), ('54','2'),('54','1')   ('55.2375819','-7.2357427')
('54.5298806', '-8.1350247')    ('54.504374314741', '-8.188334960168')      ('54.5298806','-8.1350247')
('54.2810187',  ' -7.896937')   ('54.303836850038', '-8.180136033695'), ('54','3')       ('54.2810187','-7.896937')

"""
#after testing replace 'pd.compat.StringIO(temp)' to 'filename.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(pd.compat.StringIO(temp), sep="\s{3,}")

---

print (df)
                           start  \
0     ('54.957055',' -7.740156')   
1   ('54.8913208', '-7.5740475')   
2   ('55.2375819', '-7.2357427')   
3   ('54.5298806', '-8.1350247')   
4  ('54.2810187',  ' -7.896937')   

                                        intermediary  \
0            ('54.956915136264', ' -7.753690062122')   
1  ('54.864402885577', '-7.653445692445'),('54','0')   
2  ('55.253936739337', '-7.259624609577'), ('54',...   
3             ('54.504374314741', '-8.188334960168')   
4  ('54.303836850038', '-8.180136033695'), ('54',...   

                           end  
0    ('54.957055','-7.740156')  
1  ('54.8913208','-7.5740475')  
2  ('55.2375819','-7.2357427')  
3  ('54.5298806','-8.1350247')  
4   ('54.2810187','-7.896937') 

---

import ast

#convert string values to tuples
df = df.applymap(lambda x: ast.literal_eval(x))
#convert onpy pairs values to nested lists
df['intermediary'] = df['intermediary'].apply(lambda x: list(x) if isinstance(x[1], tuple) else [x])

#DataFrame by first Start column
df1 = pd.DataFrame(df['start'].values.tolist(), columns=['lat','lng'])

#DataFrame by intermediary column with reshape for 2 columns df
df2 = (pd.concat([pd.DataFrame(x, columns=['lat','lng']) for x in df['intermediary']], keys=df.index)
       .reset_index(level=1, drop=True)
       .add_prefix('intermediary_'))
print (df2)

#join all DataFrames together
df3 = df1.add_prefix('start_').join(df2).join(df1.add_prefix('end_'))

#create MultiIndex by split
df3.columns = df3.columns.str.split('_', expand=True)

---

print (df3)

        start                 intermediary                           end  \
          lat         lng              lat               lng         lat   
0   54.957055   -7.740156  54.956915136264   -7.753690062122   54.957055   
1  54.8913208  -7.5740475  54.864402885577   -7.653445692445  54.8913208   
1  54.8913208  -7.5740475               54                 0  54.8913208   
2  55.2375819  -7.2357427  55.253936739337   -7.259624609577  55.2375819   
2  55.2375819  -7.2357427               54                 2  55.2375819   
2  55.2375819  -7.2357427               54                 1  55.2375819   
3  54.5298806  -8.1350247  54.504374314741   -8.188334960168  54.5298806   
4  54.2810187   -7.896937  54.303836850038   -8.180136033695  54.2810187   
4  54.2810187   -7.896937               54                 3  54.2810187   


          lng  
0   -7.740156  
1  -7.5740475  
1  -7.5740475  
2  -7.2357427  
2  -7.2357427  
2  -7.2357427  
3  -8.1350247  
4   -7.896937  
4   -7.896937