AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'loc' when filtering on pandas dataframe

Given the following DataFrame -

The following code should filter out rows where rows != 'Cash' (Entity/Grouping column) and that have a blank value in either Adjusted TWR (Current Quarter, No Div, USD) column, Adjusted TWR (YTD, No Div, USD) column or Annualized Adjusted TWR (Since Inception, No Div, USD) column.

Code: The following code expects to achieve this -

def twr_exceptions_logic():
    perf_asset_class_df = databases_creation()

    m1 = perf_asset_class_df.loc[(perf_asset_class_df['Entity/Grouping']!= 'Cash')]
    m2 = perf_asset_class_df[['Adjusted TWR (Current Quarter, No Div, USD)',
                              'Adjusted TWR (YTD, No Div, USD)',
                              'Annualized Adjusted TWR (Since Inception, No Div, USD)']].eq('').any(1)
    perf_asset_class_df.loc[m1&m2]
    
    return perf_asset_class_df

Error: being still relatively new to Python, I am unsure why this AttributeError is throwing back -

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
C:\Users\WILLIA~1.FOR\AppData\Local\Temp/ipykernel_18756/2689024934.py in <module>
     48     writer.save()
     49 
---> 50 xlsx_writer()

C:\Users\WILLIA~1.FOR\AppData\Local\Temp/ipykernel_18756/2689024934.py in xlsx_writer()
      1 # Function that writes Exceptions Report and API Response as a consolidated .xlsx file.
      2 def xlsx_writer():
----> 3     reporting_group_df, unknown_df, perf_asset_class_df, perf_entity_df, perf_entity_group_df = twr_exceptions_logic()
      4 
      5 #   Creating and defining filename for exceptions report

C:\Users\WILLIA~1.FOR\AppData\Local\Temp/ipykernel_18756/2834095962.py in twr_exceptions_logic()
      2     perf_asset_class_df = databases_creation()
      3 
----> 4     m1 = perf_asset_class_df.loc[(perf_asset_class_df['Entity/Grouping']!= 'Cash')]
      5     m2 = perf_asset_class_df[['Adjusted TWR (Current Quarter, No Div, USD)',
      6                               'Adjusted TWR (YTD, No Div, USD)',

AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'loc'

Help: I have done some research on this AttributionError and am finding conflicting information, as I believe it relates to my particular issue. It looks as if perf_asset_class_df is being returned as a tuple from the database_creation() function. However, it is definitely a pandas dataframe and the only thing database_creation() does is to take a dataframe named df and apply .loc in order to create a pandas dataframe called perf_asset_class_df or am I missing something

perf_asset_class_df = df[df['json_path'].str.contains(r'(?:\.children\.\[\d+\]){4}')]

databases_creation() function -

def databases_creation():
    df = data_cleansing()

    unknown_df = df[df['Entity/Grouping'].str.contains('Unknown')==True]

    perf_asset_class_df = df[df['json_path'].str.contains(r'(?:\.children\.\[\d+\]){4}')]
    perf_asset_class_df = pd.DataFrame(perf_asset_class_df)
    
    perf_entity_df = df[df['json_path'].str.count(r'\.children').eq(3)]
    perf_entity_group_df = df[df['json_path'].str.count(r'\.children').eq(2)]

    return reporting_group_df, unknown_df, perf_asset_class_df, perf_entity_df, perf_entity_group_df

Does anyone have any suggestions?

return reporting_group_df, unknown_df, perf_asset_class_df, perf_entity_df, perf_entity_group_df

This line returns a tuple of data frames. You'll need to unpack it when you call the function to get the data frame you're interested in. When your code calls databases_creation() it saves this entire tuple as perf_asset_class_df. If you only want that data frame you'll need to unpack it:

_, _, perf_asset_class_df, _, _ = databases_creation()

This unpacks the tuple, saving each element to the respective variable. We use _ for the parts we don't care about by convention but it could be any other variable.