pandas.core.groupby.SeriesGroupBy.nsmallest

SeriesGroupBy.nsmallest(n=5, take_last=False)

Return the smallest n elements.

Parameters :

n : int

Return this many ascending sorted values

take_last : bool

Where there are duplicate values, take the last duplicate

Returns :

bottom_n : Series

The n smallest values in the Series, in sorted order

See also

Series.nlargest

Notes

Faster than .order().head(n) for small n relative to the size of the Series object.

Examples

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import numpy as np
>>> s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1e6))
>>> s.nsmallest(10)  # only sorts up to the N requested