pandas.DataFrame.nsmallest

Return the first n rows ordered by columns in ascending order.

Return the first n rows with the smallest values in columns, in ascending order. The columns that are not specified are returned as well, but not used for ordering.

This method is equivalent to df.sort_values(columns, ascending=True).head(n), but more performant.

param n

int

Number of items to retrieve.

param columns

list or str

Column name or names to order by.

param keep

{‘first’, ‘last’, ‘all’}, default ‘first’

Where there are duplicate values:

• first : take the first occurrence.

• last : take the last occurrence.

• alldo not drop any duplicates, even it means

  selecting more than n items.

New in version 0.24.0.

return

DataFrame

Warning

This feature is currently unsupported by Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler