Pandas: create dataframe from list of namedtuple

In a similar vein to creating a Series from a namedtuple, you can use the _fields attribute:

In [11]: Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y'])

In [12]: points = [Point(1, 2), Point(3, 4)]

In [13]: pd.DataFrame(points, columns=Point._fields)
Out[13]: 
   x  y
0  1  2
1  3  4

Assuming they are all of the same type, in this example all Points.