BUG: Allow series with same in with crosstab (#13279)

Author: mroeschke

pandas/tests/tools/test_pivot.py

@@ -1355,6 +1355,16 @@ def test_crosstab_with_numpy_size(self):
                                 columns=expected_column)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
+    def test_crosstab_dup_index_names(self):
+        # GH 13279
+        s = pd.Series(range(3), name='foo')
+        result = pd.crosstab(s, s)
+        expected_index = pd.Index(range(3), name='foo')
+        expected = pd.DataFrame(np.eye(3, dtype=np.int64),
+                                index=expected_index,
+                                columns=expected_index)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
 
 class TestPivotAnnual(tm.TestCase):
     """

pandas/tools/pivot.py

@@ -136,8 +136,14 @@ def pivot_table(data, values=None, index=None, columns=None, aggfunc='mean',
 
     table = agged
     if table.index.nlevels > 1:
-        to_unstack = [agged.index.names[i] or i
-                      for i in range(len(index), len(keys))]
+        index_names = agged.index.names[:len(index)]
+        to_unstack = []
+        for i in range(len(index), len(keys)):
+            name = agged.index.names[i]
+            if name is None or name in index_names:
+                to_unstack.append(i)
+            else:
+                to_unstack.append(name)
         table = agged.unstack(to_unstack)
 
     if not dropna: