pandas.DataFrame.sort_values

Sort by the values along either axis.

param by

str or list of str

Name or list of names to sort by.

• if axis is 0 or ‘index’ then by may contain index

  levels and/or column labels

• if axis is 1 or ‘columns’ then by may contain column

  levels and/or index labels

Changed in version 0.23.0.

param axis

{0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’}, default 0

Axis to be sorted.

param ascending

bool or list of bool, default True

Sort ascending vs. descending. Specify list for multiple sort orders. If this is a list of bools, must match the length of the by.

param inplace

bool, default False

If True, perform operation in-place.

param kind

{‘quicksort’, ‘mergesort’, ‘heapsort’}, default ‘quicksort’

Choice of sorting algorithm. See also ndarray.np.sort for more information. mergesort is the only stable algorithm. For DataFrames, this option is only applied when sorting on a single column or label.

param na_position

{‘first’, ‘last’}, default ‘last’

Puts NaNs at the beginning if first; last puts NaNs at the end.

return

sorted_obj : DataFrame or None DataFrame with sorted values if inplace=False, None otherwise.

Warning

This feature is currently unsupported by Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler