Ordering a Dataframe in Pandas

Question

I would like to order the dataframe according to the Op.progressPercentage and averaging the eventTimes as in the following:

Input df:

uuid,eventTime,Op.progress,Op.progressPercentage, AnotherAttribute
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:52:39,P,3.0,01:57:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:53:18,P,4.0,01:55:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:53:49,P,5.0,01:55:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:53:55,P,3.0,01:56:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:55:07,P,6.0,01:54:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:55:24,P,5.0,01:54:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:55:27,P,6.0,01:53:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T13:33:46,W,40.0,01:13:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T13:40:10,N,51.0,02:00:00

Output df:

uuid,eventTime,Op.progress,Op.progressPercentage, AnotherAttribute
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:52:39,P,3.0,01:57:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,avg(12:52:39,12:53:18),P,3.0,01:56:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:53:18,P,4.0,01:55:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:53:49,P,5.0,01:55:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,avg(12:53:49,212:55:55),P,5.0,01:54:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:55:07,P,6.0,01:54:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T12:55:27,P,6.0,01:53:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T13:33:46,W,40.0,01:13:00
C0972765-8436-0000-0000-000000000000,2017-08-19T13:40:10,N,51.0,02:00:00

The Op.progressPercentage should be always monotonic crescent as well as eventTime. Please, any help on this would be very appreciated. Best Regards, carlo

Answer 1

sorted = df.sort_values(['eventTime', 'Op.progress'])

or if you want to modify the dataframe in place,

df.sort_values(['eventTime', 'Op.progress'], inplace = True)

and if you want to do it backwards

sorted = df.sort_values(['eventTime', 'Op.progress'], ascending = False)