Pandas - How to flatten a hierarchical index in columns

Question

I have a data frame with a hierarchical index in axis 1 (columns) (from a groupby.agg operation):

     USAF   WBAN  year  month  day  s_PC  s_CL         


        

Answer 1

And if you want to retain any of the aggregation info from the second level of the multiindex you can try this:

In [1]: new_cols = [''.join(t) for t in df.columns]
Out[1]:
['USAF',
 'WBAN',
 'day',
 'month',
 's_CDsum',
 's_CLsum',
 's_CNTsum',
 's_PCsum',
 'tempfamax',
 'tempfamin',
 'year']

In [2]: df.columns = new_cols