Answers for "sort pandas dataframe based on a column"

sort dataframe by column

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

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

sorting rows and columns in pandas

df.sort_values(by="ColumnName", axis=0, ascending=False, inplace=False, kind='quicksort')
#axis 0 is rows and axis 1 is columns. For axis 0 by needs to contain column name

python sort dataframe by one column

#following is example of sorting by the column "2" in descending order
final_df = df.sort_values(by=['2'], ascending=False)

dataframe sort by column

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