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BUG: using NamedTuples with .loc works only sometimes #48124

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd

# A df with two level MutltiIndex
df = pd.DataFrame(index=pd.MultiIndex.from_product([["A", "B"], ["a", "b", "c"]], names=["first", "second"]))

# Indexing with a normal tuple works as expected:
# normal subset
df.loc[("A", "b"), :]  # <- Works
# complicated subset
df.loc[("A", ["a", "b"]), :]  # <- Works

# Now the same with a named tuple
from collections import namedtuple

indexer_tuple = namedtuple("Indexer", df.index.names)

# simple subset with named tuple
df.loc[indexer_tuple(first="A", second="b")]  # <- Works

# complicated subset with named tuple
df.loc[indexer_tuple(first="A", second=["a", "b"]), :]  # <- DOES NOT WORK!
# Raises:
# InvalidIndexError: Indexer(first='A', second=['a', 'b'])

# However, converting back to a tuple works again
df.loc[tuple(indexer_tuple(first="A", second=["a", "b"])), :]  # <- works

Issue Description

When using loc with a namedtuple, only certain types of indexing work. That is surprising as I assumed that namedtuples (as they are a tuple subtype) would always just add a like a tuple.

The reason, why I used namedtuples in the first place was to make loc with multiple index levels easier to read. Therefore, it would be great, if namedtuples would work equivalently to tuples in loc

Expected Behavior

namedtuples should behave like normal tuples, as they are tuple sub-classes

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : e8093ba
python : 3.8.12.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.19.1-2-MANJARO
Version : #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Aug 11 19:05:47 UTC 2022
machine : x86_64
processor :
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 1.4.3
numpy : 1.23.2
pytz : 2022.2.1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 62.6.0
pip : 22.1.2
Cython : None
pytest : 7.1.2
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.9.1
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.4.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.11.1
bottleneck : None
brotli : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
gcsfs : None
markupsafe : 2.1.1
matplotlib : 3.5.3
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.9.0
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlwt : None
zstandard : None

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