I have some data in text file that I am reading into Pandas. A simplified version of the txt read in is:

```
idx_level1|idx_level2|idx_level3|idx_level4|START_NODE|END_NODE|OtherData...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:26Z|1|18260004567689|18260005575180|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:26Z|2|18260004567689|18260004240718|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:26Z|3|18260005359901|18260004567689|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:31Z|1|18260004567689|18260005575180|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:31Z|2|18260004567689|18260004240718|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:31Z|3|18260005359901|18260004567689|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:36Z|1|18260004567689|18260005575180|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:36Z|2|18260004567689|18260004240718|...
353386066294006|1142|2018-09-20T07:57:36Z|3|18260005359901|18260004567689|...
353386066736543|22|2018-04-17T07:08:23Z||||...
353386066736543|22|2018-04-17T07:08:24Z||||...
353386066736543|22|2018-04-17T07:08:25Z||||...
353386066736543|22|2018-04-17T07:08:26Z||||...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:07Z|1|18260004580350|18260005235340|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:07Z|2|18260005235340|18260005141535|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:07Z|3|18260005235340|18260005945439|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:07Z|4|18260006215338|18260005235340|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:07Z|5|18260004483352|18260005945439|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:07Z|6|18260004283163|18260006215338|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:01Z|1|18260004580350|18260005235340|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:01Z|2|18260005235340|18260005141535|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:01Z|3|18260005235340|18260005945439|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:01Z|4|18260006215338|18260005235340|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:01Z|5|18260004483352|18260005945439|...
353386066736543|403|2018-07-02T16:55:01Z|6|18260004283163|18260006215338|...

```

And the code I use to read in is as follows:

```
mydata = pd.read_csv('/myloc/my_simple_data.txt', sep='|', 
 dtype={'idx_level1': 'int',
        'idx_level2': 'int',
        'idx_level3': 'str',
        'idx_level4': 'float',
        'START_NODE': 'str',
        'END_NODE': 'str',
        'OtherData...': 'str'},
parse_dates = ['idx_level3'],
index_col=['idx_level1','idx_level2','idx_level3','idx_level4'])

```

What I really want to do is have a seperate panadas DataFrames for each unique `idx_level1` & `idx_level2` value. So in the above example there would be 3 DataFrames pertaining to `idx_level1|idx_level2` values of `353386066294006|1142`, `353386066736543|22` & `353386066736543|403` respectively.

Is it possible to read in a text file like this and output each change in idx\_level2 to a new Pandas DataFrame, maybe as part of some kind of loop? Alternatively, what would be the most efficient way to split `mydata` into DataFrame subsets, given that everything I have read suggests that it is inefficient to iterate through a DataFrame.