sortin column in dataframe pandas 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 column

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

Example 3: sort dataframe by column

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