pandas dataframe sort columns code example

Example 1: sort dataframe by column

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

Example 2: 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 3: pandas sort columns by name

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

Example 4: sort by dataframe

DataFrame.sort_values(self, by, axis=0, ascending=True,
                      inplace=False, kind='quicksort',
                      na_position='last',
                      ignore_index=False)

# Example
df.sort_values(by=['ColToSortBy'])

Example 5: dataframe, sort by columns

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

Example 6: dataframe sort by column

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