<p dir="auto">Add keyword argument to HTML parser to take an integer / list for the rows to interpret as header rows. If more than one, interpret as hierarchical columns / MultiIndex.</p>
<p dir="auto">Presumably this would also allow you to round-trip Data Frame with hierarchical columns.</p>
<p dir="auto">I don't think this already exists.</p>
<p dir="auto">related <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="17655872" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/4468" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/4468/hovercard" href="https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/4468">#4468</a><br>
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<p dir="auto">See for example: <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000104746913006802/a2215416z10-q.htm#CCSCI" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000104746913006802/a2215416z10-q.htm#CCSCI</a></p>
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<p dir="auto">Add keyword argument to ExcelFile parser to take an integer / list for the rows to interpret as header rows. If more than one, interpret as hierarchical columns / MultiIndex.</p>
<p dir="auto">Presumably this would also allow you to round-trip  Data Frame with hierarchical columns.</p>
<p dir="auto">Basically, if you have something spanning two columns, just converts to two cells with the data in the original cell, ending up just like what you need for csv reader.</p>