Pandas provides sort_values method which can be used to sort the data frame based on particular column name

Example Sort data set by student name

import pandas
data = pandas.DataFrame({'StudentName' : ['Anil', 'Musk','Bill'], 
                        'Class' : [1,2,2], 
                        'Age' : [6, 7, 8 ]})
data.sort_values(by="StudentName")

Output

index	Age	Class	StudentName
0	6	1	Anil
2	8	2	Bill
1	7	2	Musk

Example Sort data set by student name in descending order

import pandas
data = pandas.DataFrame({'StudentName' : ['Anil', 'Musk','Bill'], 
                        'Class' : [1,2,2], 
                        'Age' : [6, 7, 8 ]})
data.sort_values(by="StudentName", ascending= False)

Output

index	Age	Class	StudentName
1	7	2	Musk
2	8	2	Bill
0	6	1	Anil