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Let’s read an Excel file into a DataFrame:

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import pandas as pd\n\nbudget = pd.read_excel("budget.xlsx")\n\nbudget
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Output:

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Let’s say we want to sort the July’19 Budget column.

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We can sort the column using the sort_values method.

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We pass the name of the column we want to sort to the by parameter. And we pass inplace = True to make permanent changes in the budget DataFrame.

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budget.sort_values(by = "July'19 Budget",  inplace = True)\n\nbudget.head()
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Output:

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