pandas.DataFrame.sort_values

Question 1

Describe what the method .sort_values does:

Answer 1

sort by values along either axis

Question 2

what is the first parameter in .sort_values()

Answer 2

by

Question 3

what are the acceptable inputs for the parameter by?

Answer 3

Name or list of names to sort by.

Question 4

what is the second parameter of the method .sort_values()?

Answer 4

axis=

Question 5

what are the acceptable inputs to the paramerter axis?

Answer 5

str or integers

Question 6

what does the paramerter axis do?

Answer 6

it determines by what axis to sort by. default is 0

Question 7

what is the third parameter of the method .sort_values()?

Answer 7

ascending=

Question 8

what is the acceptable input of the parameter ascending?

Answer 8

a boolean , True or False

Question 9

what does the parameter ascending determine?

Answer 9

whether to sort ascending or descending. Default is descending.

Question 10

If I want to ignore the existing axis what parameter would I use?

Answer 10

ignore_index=

Question 11

what data type does the parameter ignore_index accept?

Answer 11

boolean

Question 12

what does the method .sort_values() return?

Answer 12

A dataframe with sorted values or none if inplace is true