pandas dataframe sort ascending and descending code example

Example 1: 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 2: dataframe, sort by columns

final_df = df.sort_values(by=['2'], ascending=False)