Signature of get_level_values not as documented

[steamelephant]

import numpy as np 
import pandas as pd

data = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(8).reshape(2,4)).set_index([0,1])

print(type(data.index.get_level_values(0)))

returns

<class 'pandas.indexes.numeric.Int64Index'>

while docs say it should return an ndarray.

The actual behaviour is probably useful and the documented behaviour can be obtained by for example:
data.index.get_level_values(0).values
so the situation could be improved by updating the docstring but I think the name could be better.

version info:

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None
python: 3.6.0.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 4.8.0-42-generic
machine: x86_64
processor: x86_64
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
LOCALE: en_GB.UTF-8

pandas: 0.19.2
nose: 1.3.7
pip: 9.0.1
setuptools: 27.2.0
Cython: 0.25.2
numpy: 1.11.3
scipy: 0.18.1
statsmodels: 0.6.1
xarray: 0.9.1
IPython: 5.1.0
sphinx: 1.5.1
patsy: 0.4.1
dateutil: 2.6.0
pytz: 2016.10
blosc: None
bottleneck: 1.2.0
tables: 3.3.0
numexpr: 2.6.1
matplotlib: 2.0.0
openpyxl: 2.4.1
xlrd: 1.0.0
xlwt: 1.2.0
xlsxwriter: 0.9.6
lxml: 3.7.2
bs4: 4.5.3
html5lib: 0.999
httplib2: None
apiclient: None
sqlalchemy: 1.1.5
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.9.4
boto: 2.45.0
pandas_datareader: None

[chris-b1]

Thanks for the report - this is corrected on master, was fixed as part of #15245

In [36]: pd.__version__
Out[36]: '0.19.0+566.g54e71a7'

In [37]: data.index.get_level_values?
Signature: data.index.get_level_values(level)
Docstring:
Return vector of label values for requested level,
equal to the length of the index

Parameters
----------
level : int or level name

Returns
-------
values : Index