BUG: select_as_multiple doesn't respect start/stop kwargs GH16209 (pa…

…ndas-dev#16317)

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.2.txt

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug that would force importing of the clipboard routines unnecessarily, potentially causing an import error on startup (:issue:`16288`)
 - Bug that raised IndexError HTML-rendering an empty DataFrame (:issue:`15953`)
 
+- Bug in ``HDFStore.select_as_multiple()`` where start/stop arguments were not respected (:issue:`16209`)
 
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^

pandas/io/pytables.py

@@ -831,8 +831,8 @@ def func(_start, _stop, _where):
 
             # retrieve the objs, _where is always passed as a set of
             # coordinates here
-            objs = [t.read(where=_where, columns=columns, **kwargs)
-                    for t in tbls]
+            objs = [t.read(where=_where, columns=columns, start=_start,
+                           stop=_stop, **kwargs) for t in tbls]
 
             # concat and return
             return concat(objs, axis=axis,
@@ -1425,7 +1425,8 @@ def get_result(self, coordinates=False):
 
         # if specified read via coordinates (necessary for multiple selections
         if coordinates:
-            where = self.s.read_coordinates(where=self.where)
+            where = self.s.read_coordinates(where=self.where, start=self.start,
+                                            stop=self.stop)
         else:
             where = self.where
 

pandas/tests/io/test_pytables.py

@@ -4219,6 +4219,21 @@ def test_start_stop_table(self):
             expected = df.loc[30:40, ['A']]
             tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
+    def test_start_stop_multiple(self):
+
+        # GH 16209
+        with ensure_clean_store(self.path) as store:
+
+            df = DataFrame({"foo": [1, 2], "bar": [1, 2]})
+
+            store.append_to_multiple({'selector': ['foo'], 'data': None}, df,
+                                     selector='selector')
+            result = store.select_as_multiple(['selector', 'data'],
+                                              selector='selector', start=0,
+                                              stop=1)
+            expected = df.loc[[0], ['foo', 'bar']]
+            tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
     def test_start_stop_fixed(self):
 
         with ensure_clean_store(self.path) as store: