From 5f88c22218c4d490441d6399a7c568ee9b1ad006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sandip Chatterjee <sandip.chatterjee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:51:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: Fix Empty DataFrame.style.render raises IndexError

Fix attempt for Issue #15953

Handles DataFrames and Series with no rows or columns
using `pd.DataFrame().empty` or `pd.Series().empty`
---
 pandas/formats/style.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/formats/style.py b/pandas/formats/style.py
index e712010a8b4f2..2a39b37a0825a 100644
--- a/pandas/formats/style.py
+++ b/pandas/formats/style.py
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ def format_attr(pair):
 
         cell_context = dict()
 
-        n_rlvls = self.data.index.nlevels
-        n_clvls = self.data.columns.nlevels
+        n_rlvls = 0 if self.data.empty else self.data.index.nlevels
+        n_clvls = 0 if self.data.empty else self.data.columns.nlevels
         rlabels = self.data.index.tolist()
         clabels = self.data.columns.tolist()