DataFrame.nsmallest()

pandas.DataFrame.nsmallest

DataFrame.nsmallest(n, columns, keep='first')

Get the rows of a DataFrame sorted by the n smallest values of columns.

New in version 0.17.0.

Parameters:

Parameters:	n : int Number of items to retrieve columns : list or str Column name or names to order by keep : {‘first’, ‘last’, False}, default ‘first’ Where there are duplicate values: - `first` : take the first occurrence. - `last` : take the last occurrence.

n : int

Number of items to retrieve

columns : list or str

Column name or names to order by

keep : {‘first’, ‘last’, False}, default ‘first’

Where there are duplicate values: - first : take the first occurrence. - last : take the last occurrence.