pandas.Series.argsort — pandas 0.16.2 documentation (original) (raw)

Series.argsort(axis=0, kind='quicksort', order=None)

Overrides ndarray.argsort. Argsorts the value, omitting NA/null values, and places the result in the same locations as the non-NA values

Parameters: axis : int (can only be zero) kind : {‘mergesort’, ‘quicksort’, ‘heapsort’}, default ‘quicksort’ Choice of sorting algorithm. See np.sort for more information. ‘mergesort’ is the only stable algorithm order : ignored
Returns: argsorted : Series, with -1 indicated where nan values are present