pandas.MultiIndex.sortlevel — pandas 0.18.1 documentation (original) (raw)

MultiIndex.sortlevel(level=0, ascending=True, sort_remaining=True)

Sort MultiIndex at the requested level. The result will respect the original ordering of the associated factor at that level.

Parameters: level : list-like, int or str, default 0 If a string is given, must be a name of the level If list-like must be names or ints of levels. ascending : boolean, default True False to sort in descending order Can also be a list to specify a directed ordering sort_remaining : sort by the remaining levels after level.
Returns: sorted_index : MultiIndex