Add sort_columns parameter to plot to allow unsorted plots by danbirken · Pull Request #918 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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danbirken

I was using pandas for the first time and when plot()ing I noticed it was sorting the columns alphanumerically.

I felt like the ordering I had defined in the DataFrame was a pretty decent proxy for how I wanted the subplots to be ordered, so I think this should be an option so I can over-ride the sorting and have the plot go in the direction specified.

@adamklein

Looks good to me, but as it touches the API I'll let Wes have a look. Thanks for the pull req

@wesm

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Mar 15, 2012

@wesm

Add sort_columns parameter to plot to allow unsorted plots

@danbirken

Awesome!

Also I didn't want to push my luck too much, but is there a reason that the default is sorting columns in a plot? It certainly is a nice feature to have and I imagine for a lot of datasets it is a really helpful feature, but as a first time user it was strange to me that my plots were showing up in a different order than they were in my dataframe, especially given how wonderfully easy it is to re-order and take subsets of a dataframe.