order dataframe 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: 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 4: dataframe sort by column

sorted = df.sort_values('column-to-sort-on', ascending=False)
#or
df.sort_values('name', inplace=True)

Example 5: sort dataframe by column

df.sort_values(by='col1', ascending=False, na_position='first', inplace=True)

Example 6: sort columns dataframe

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