PERF: MultiIndex._engine.get_loc() handles non-unique fine

Author: toobaz

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt

@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ Performance Improvements
 - :func:`Series` / :func:`DataFrame` tab completion limits to 100 values, for better performance. (:issue:`18587`)
 - Improved performance of :func:`DataFrame.median` with ``axis=1`` when bottleneck is not installed (:issue:`16468`)
 - Improved performance of :func:`MultiIndex.get_loc` for large indexes, at the cost of a reduction in performance for small ones (:issue:`18519`)
+- Improved performance of :func:`MultiIndex.get_loc` for non-unique indexes, which as a consequence does not emit a ``PerformanceWarning`` any more
 
 
 .. _whatsnew_0230.docs:

pandas/core/indexes/multi.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import (
     _ensure_int64,
     _ensure_platform_int,
+    is_integer,
     is_categorical_dtype,
     is_object_dtype,
     is_iterator,
@@ -2215,8 +2216,12 @@ def _maybe_to_slice(loc):
             raise KeyError('Key length ({0}) exceeds index depth ({1})'
                            ''.format(keylen, self.nlevels))
 
-        if keylen == self.nlevels and self.is_unique:
-            return self._engine.get_loc(key)
+        if keylen == self.nlevels:
+            loc = self._engine.get_loc(key)
+            if not self.is_unique and is_integer(loc):
+                # Indexers expect a slice from indexing a non-unique index
+                loc = slice(loc, loc + 1)
+            return loc
 
         # -- partial selection or non-unique index
         # break the key into 2 parts based on the lexsort_depth of the index;

pandas/tests/frame/test_sort_values_level_as_str.py

@@ -85,14 +85,7 @@ def test_sort_column_level_and_index_label(
                                   ascending=ascending,
                                   axis=1)
 
-    if len(levels) > 1:
-        # Accessing multi-level columns that are not lexsorted raises a
-        # performance warning
-        with tm.assert_produces_warning(PerformanceWarning,
-                                        check_stacklevel=False):
-            assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
-    else:
-        assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+    assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
 def test_sort_values_column_index_level_precedence():

pandas/tests/indexing/test_ix.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 from pandas.compat import lrange
 from pandas import Series, DataFrame, option_context, MultiIndex
 from pandas.util import testing as tm
-from pandas.errors import PerformanceWarning
 
 
 class TestIX(object):
@@ -185,9 +184,7 @@ def test_ix_general(self):
         df = DataFrame(data).set_index(keys=['col', 'year'])
         key = 4.0, 2012
 
-        # emits a PerformanceWarning, ok
-        with tm.assert_produces_warning(PerformanceWarning):
-            tm.assert_frame_equal(df.loc[key], df.iloc[2:])
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(df.loc[key], df.iloc[2:])
 
         # this is ok
         df.sort_index(inplace=True)

pandas/tests/indexing/test_multiindex.py

@@ -359,10 +359,6 @@ def test_multiindex_perf_warn(self):
                         'joe': ['x', 'x', 'z', 'y'],
                         'jolie': np.random.rand(4)}).set_index(['jim', 'joe'])
 
-        with tm.assert_produces_warning(PerformanceWarning,
-                                        clear=[pd.core.index]):
-            df.loc[(1, 'z')]
-
         df = df.iloc[[2, 1, 3, 0]]
         with tm.assert_produces_warning(PerformanceWarning):
             df.loc[(0, )]