Series.nsmallest(n=5, keep='first')
[source]
Return the smallest n
elements.
Parameters: |
n : int Return this many ascending sorted values keep : {‘first’, ‘last’}, default ‘first’ Where there are duplicate values: - |
---|---|
Returns: |
bottom_n : Series The n smallest values in the Series, in sorted order |
See also
Faster than .sort_values().head(n)
for small n
relative to the size of the Series
object.
>>> import pandas as pd >>> import numpy as np >>> s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(10**6)) >>> s.nsmallest(10) # only sorts up to the N requested 288532 -4.954580 732345 -4.835960 64803 -4.812550 446457 -4.609998 501225 -4.483945 669476 -4.472935 973615 -4.401699 621279 -4.355126 773916 -4.347355 359919 -4.331927 dtype: float64
© 2008–2012, AQR Capital Management, LLC, Lambda Foundry, Inc. and PyData Development Team
Licensed under the 3-clause BSD License.
http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.23.4/generated/pandas.Series.nsmallest.html