pandas.api.typing.SeriesGroupBy.nsmallest

SeriesGroupBy.nsmallest(n=5, keep='first')

Return the smallest n elements.

Parameters:

nint, default 5

Return this many ascending sorted values.

keep{‘first’, ‘last’, ‘all’}, default ‘first’

When there are duplicate values that cannot all fit in a Series of n elements:

• first : return the first n occurrences in order of appearance.

• last : return the last n occurrences in reverse order of appearance.

• all : keep all occurrences. This can result in a Series of size larger than n.

Returns:

Series

The n smallest values in the Series, sorted in increasing order.

See also

Series.nlargest

Get the n largest elements.

Series.sort_values

Sort Series by values.

Series.head

Return the first n rows.

Notes

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

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])

>>> s
0    1
1    2
2    3
3    4
4    5
5    6
dtype: int64

>>> s.groupby([1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2]).nsmallest(n=2)
1  0    1
   1    2
2  3    4
   4    5
dtype: int64