pandas groupby sort descending order

Question

pandas groupby will by default sort. But I\'d like to change the sort order. How can I do this?

I\'m guessing that I can\'t apply a sort method to the returned gro

Answer 1

Do your groupby, and use reset_index() to make it back into a DataFrame. Then sort.

grouped = df.groupby('mygroups').sum().reset_index()
grouped.sort_values('mygroups', ascending=False)