pandas.Index.min — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)

Index. min(axis=None, skipna=True)[source]

Return the minimum value of the Index.

Parameters: axis : {None} Dummy argument for consistency with Series skipna : bool, default True
Returns: scalar Minimum value.

See also

Index.max

Return the maximum value of the object.

Series.min

Return the minimum value in a Series.

DataFrame.min

Return the minimum values in a DataFrame.

Examples

idx = pd.Index([3, 2, 1]) idx.min() 1

idx = pd.Index(['c', 'b', 'a']) idx.min() 'a'

For a MultiIndex, the minimum is determined lexicographically.

idx = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([('a', 'b'), (2, 1)]) idx.min() ('a', 1)