pandas sort dataframe by column code example

Example 1: sort a dataframe by a column valuepython

>>> df.sort_values(by=['col1'])
    col1 col2 col3
0   A    2    0
1   A    1    1
2   B    9    9
5   C    4    3
4   D    7    2
3   NaN  8    4

Example 2: sort dataframe by column

df.sort_values(by='col1', ascending=False)

Example 3: df sort values

>>> df.sort_values(by=['col1'], ascending = False)
    col1 col2 col3
0   A    2    0
1   A    1    1
2   B    9    9
5   C    4    3
4   D    7    2
3   NaN  8    4

Example 4: sorting by column in pandas

#Python, Pandas
#Sorting dataframe df on the values of a column col1
#Temporary
df.sort_values(by=["col1"]) 

#Permanent
df.sort_values(by=["col1"], inplace = True)

Example 5: pandas sort columns by name

df = df.reindex(sorted(df.columns), axis=1)

Example 6: pandas sort dataframe by column

# Basic syntax:
import pandas as pd
df.sort_values(by=['col1'])

# Note, this does not sort in place unless you add inplace=True
# Note, add ascending=False if you want to sort in decreasing order
# Note, to sort by more than one column, add other column names to the
#	list like by=['col1', 'col2']

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