BUG: read_excel with multi-indexed column ignores index_col=None

From SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34020061/excel-to-pandas-dataframe-using-first-column-as-index

@chris-b1 another one on the multi-index excel issues … 😃

Small test case: content of excel file:

A	A	B	B
key	val	key	val
1	2	3	4
1	2	3	4

gives:

In [2]: pd.read_excel("test_excel_index_col.xlsx", header=[0,1], index_col=None)
Out[2]:
A     A    B
key val key  val
1     2    3   4
1     2    3   4

It’s not super clear in the formatting of the dataframe, but the [1, 1] is the index and [A, key] are seen as the level names of the multi-indexed columns.

[the-rccg]

Vote for index_col=False to fix this

[araespahan]

As of now I still see the same issue. when using multi headers with read_excel, pandas always assigns the first column as index.