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The last example at https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.wide_to_long.html is incorrect.
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({
... 'famid': [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3],
... 'birth': [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3],
... 'ht_one': [2.8, 2.9, 2.2, 2, 1.8, 1.9, 2.2, 2.3, 2.1],
... 'ht_two': [3.4, 3.8, 2.9, 3.2, 2.8, 2.4, 3.3, 3.4, 2.9]
... })
>>> df
>>> l = pd.wide_to_long(df, stubnames='ht', i=['famid', 'birth'], j='age',
sep='_', suffix='\w')
>>> l
locally, l is an empty dataframe
Empty DataFrame
Columns: [ht_two, ht_one, ht]
Index: []I think the suffix should be \w+.