Sort Pandas DataFrame by value

Question

I Know this question has a lot of answers, for example: How to sort pandas data frame using values from several columns?

I tried the solutions given by the users, bu

Answer 1

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're trying to sort that df by 'retweets'? use:

maxTweets_sorted = maxTweets.sort_values(by='Retweets')

Answer 2

By default pandas does not sort in place, unlike Python's list.

Change

maxTweets.sort_values(by=['Tweet', 'Retweets'], ascending=[False, True])

to

maxTweets = maxTweets.sort_values(by=['Tweet', 'Retweets'], ascending=[False, True])

or pass inplace=True

maxTweets.sort_values(by=['Tweet', 'Retweets'], ascending=[False, True], inplace=True)