Answers for "how to sort a data frame based off of one column pandas"

sort dataframe by column

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

pandas dataframe sort by column name first 10 values

print df
   0  Bytes  Client             Ip
0  1      1    1000   192.168.10.2
1  0      0    2000  192.168.10.12
2  2      2     500   192.168.10.4
3  3      3     159  192.168.10.56

print df.nlargest(3, 'Client')
   0  Bytes  Client             Ip
1  0      0    2000  192.168.10.12
0  1      1    1000   192.168.10.2
2  2      2     500   192.168.10.4