sort dataframe by column value 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: 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: sort dataframe by column

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

Example 4: sort columns dataframe

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