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Sort by the values along either axis.

Parameters
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: Allow specifying index or column level names.

axis{0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’}, default 0
Axis to be sorted.

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.

inplace bool, default False
If True, perform operation in-place.

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

na_position{‘first’, ‘last’}, default ‘last’
Puts NaNs at the beginning if first; last puts NaNs at the end.

ignore_index bool, default False
If True, the resulting axis will be labeled 0, 1, …, n - 1.

New in version 1.0.0.

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

The github link for this notebook is below 👇👇