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I noticed this oddity while working on #55951. There is a subtle difference in the docstrings for the sort
argument:
DataFrame.value_counts
:
Sort by frequencies when True. Sort by DataFrame column values when False.
DataFrameGroupBy.value_counts
:
Sort by frequencies.
It seems surprising to me that DataFrame.value_counts(sort=False)
still sorts:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [2, 1, 1], 0: [3, 4, 3]})
print(df)
# a 0
# 0 2 3
# 1 1 4
# 2 1 3
print(df.value_counts(sort=False))
# a 0
# 1 3 1
# 4 1
# 2 3 1
whereas my expected result would be to keep the same order as the input.
print(df.value_counts(sort=False))
# a 0
# 2 3 1
# 1 4 1
# 1 3 1
I propose we deprecate this behavior and not sort at all when sort=False
.