Sorting Data Frames in Pandas
Creating a Pandas Dataframe for Demonstration, Here, we have created a dataframe in which we will perform various sorting functions.
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# importing pandas library import pandas as pd # creating and initializing a nested list age_list = [[ 'Afghanistan' , 1952 , 8425333 , 'Asia' ], [ 'Australia' , 1957 , 9712569 , 'Oceania' ], [ 'Brazil' , 1962 , 76039390 , 'Americas' ], [ 'China' , 1957 , 637408000 , 'Asia' ], [ 'France' , 1957 , 44310863 , 'Europe' ], [ 'India' , 1952 , 3.72e + 08 , 'Asia' ], [ 'United States' , 1957 , 171984000 , 'Americas' ]] # creating a pandas dataframe df = pd.DataFrame(age_list, columns = [ 'Country' , 'Year' , 'Population' , 'Continent' ]) df |
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How to Sort Pandas DataFrame?
We can perform sorting in Pandas Dataframe. This article will discuss how to sort Pandas DataFrame using various methods in Python.