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Indexs in Arkouda
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Like Pandas, Arkouda supports ``Indexes``. The purpose and intended functionality remains the same in Arkouda, but are configured to be based on ``arkouda.pdarrays``.

.. autoclass:: arkouda.Index
   :no-index:

Additionally, ``Multi-Indexes`` are supported for indexes with multiple keys.

..autoclass:: arkouda.MultiIndex

Features
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``Index`` support the majority of functionality offered by ``pandas.Index``.

Change Dtype
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.. autofunction:: arkouda.Index.set_dtype
   :no-index:
.. autofunction:: arkouda.MultiIndex.set_dtype
   :no-index:

ArgSort
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.. autofunction:: arkouda.Index.argsort
   :no-index:
.. autofunction:: arkouda.MultiIndex.argsort
   :no-index:

Lookup
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.. autofunction:: arkouda.Index.lookup
   :no-index:
.. autofunction:: arkouda.MultiIndex.lookup
   :no-index:

Concat
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.. autofunction:: arkouda.Index.concat
   :no-index:
.. autofunction:: arkouda.MultiIndex.concat
   :no-index: