pandas.MultiIndex.sortlevel

MultiIndex.sortlevel(level=0, ascending=True, sort_remaining=True)

Sort MultiIndex at the requested level. The result will respect the original ordering of the associated factor at that level.

Parameters:

level : list-like, int or str, default 0

If a string is given, must be a name of the level If list-like must be names or ints of levels.

ascending : boolean, default True

False to sort in descending order Can also be a list to specify a directed ordering

sort_remaining : sort by the remaining levels after level

Returns:

sorted_index : pd.MultiIndex

Resulting index

indexer : np.ndarray

Indices of output values in original index