Resolved: Copy a Multi-Index column of a Pandas Dataframe including the second header

Question:

Background – I have a dataset with two headers that I’ve read from a CSV…

df = pd.read_csv(file, header=[0,1])
print(df)

     A   B   C
     a   b   c
---------------
0    1   2   3
1    4   5   6
2    7   8   9
       ...

What I Want – I’d like to duplicate one of the columns (say, A) into a new column D, such that…

     A   B   C   D
     a   b   c   a
----------------------
0    1   2   3   1
1    4   5   6   4
2    7   8   9   7
       ...

What I’m Getting – …but when I do this using df['D'] = df['A'], what I get is a copy without the content of the second header…

     A   B   C   D
     a   b   c   
----------------------
0    1   2   3   1
1    4   5   6   4
2    7   8   9   7
       ...

TLDR – How can I capture the content of the second header of my multi-index dataframe when copying a column?

Need to specify both levels of multiindex

# assign ('A', 'a') values to ('D', 'a') column
df[('D','a')] = df[('A','a')] # or df['D','a'] = df['A']

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