pandas.Index.argsort — pandas 1.0.1 documentation (original) (raw)

Index. argsort(self, *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.

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')