[Pandas-dev] Why is it not possible to access index entries like columns?

[Tyler Hardin]

Hi,

Is it just a matter of implementing the lookup in the . and [] operator
methods to return df.index.get_level_values() with the argument, or is
there some deeper reason this can't work that I'm not seeing?

E.g. I want df['date'] to do df.get_level_values('date') when there is no
date column and there is a level in the index named 'date'. Presumably,
this would be a secondary lookup w/ columns taking precedence -- i.e. a
'date' column would mask a 'date' index.

Thanks,
Tyler
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