pandas.Index.argsort — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)
Index. argsort(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶
Return the integer indices that would sort the index.
| Parameters: | *args Passed to numpy.ndarray.argsort. **kwargs Passed to numpy.ndarray.argsort. |
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| Returns: | numpy.ndarray Integer indices that would sort the index if used as an indexer. |
Examples
idx = pd.Index(['b', 'a', 'd', 'c']) idx Index(['b', 'a', 'd', 'c'], dtype='object')
order = idx.argsort() order array([1, 0, 3, 2])
idx[order] Index(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], dtype='object')