code: def _remove_key_level(key: Any, level: int) -> Any:
      """
      Remove a level from key. If detupleize is True, and if only a
      single level remains, convert the tuple to a scalar.
      """
      result = key[:level] + key[level + 1 :]
      if len(result) == 1:
          return result[0]
      return result
  
imports: from __future__ import annotations
  import itertools
  import warnings
  from collections import abc
  from functools import cached_property, reduce
  from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Dict, Mapping, Optional, Tuple, Union
  import numpy
  import pandas
  from packaging.version import Version
  from pandas.api.types import is_bool
  from typing_extensions import Self
  import cudf
  from cudf.core import column
label_desc: Use image node_id 4 for calling a global function with example usage: _remove_key_level(key, level) and returns: result, result