Cannot instantiate DataFrame with
from pandas import DataFrame
DataFrame([],[]) # DataFrame([]) does the same thing

pandas\core\frame.pyc in **init**(self, data, index, columns, dtype, copy)
    208                                          copy=copy)
    209         elif isinstance(data, list):
--> 210             if isinstance(data[0], (list, tuple)):
    211                 data, columns = _list_to_sdict(data, columns)
    212                 mgr = self._init_dict(data, index, columns, dtype=dtype)

IndexError: list index out of range
