Question

I’am trying to sort a dataframe by column using df.sort_index. Such strings column, the second, is composed by numbers within text. After operation I’ve got:

15 rs1820451 32681212 0.441 0.493 0.5358 98.9 29 0 0.441 T:A 
14 rs1820450 32680556 0.441 0.493 0.5358 98.9 29 0 0.441 G:C 
38 rs1820447 32693541 0.421 0.332 0.0915 94.4 26 0 0.211 G:A 
37 rs1820446 32693440 0.483 0.499 0.9633 100.0 30 0 0.475 G:T 
7 rs1808502 32660555 0.517 0.46 0.543 100.0 30 0 0.358 C:G 
24 rs17817908 32687035 0.407 0.362 0.6159 98.9 29 0 0.237 C:T 
22 rs17817896 32686160 0.407 0.362 0.6159 98.9 29 0 0.237 T:A 
66 rs17236946 32717247 0.492 0.453 0.7762 98.9 29 0 0.347 T:C

Which isn’t exactly what I want. The last three lines should be in the beginning.
Is there any other dataframe method or an overcome to this?

Answer 1

For futures references, here goes a possible solution.

    cond = ((df['L1'] != rscode) & (df['L2'] != rscode))
    outname = inf + '_test'
    df['L3'] = df['L1'].map(lambda x: int(str(x)[2:]))        
    outdata = df.drop(df[cond].index.values).sort(columns='L3', ascending=False, axis=0)
    # export outdata using Datadrame.to_csv with the original df cols

Improvements are welcome.
Best,