In-place sort_values in pandas what does it exactly mean?
"inplace=True" is more like a physical sort while "inplace=False" is more like logic sort. The physical sort means that the data sets saved in the computer is sorted based on some keys; and the logic sort means the data sets saved in the computer is still saved in the original (when it was input/imported) way, and the sort is only working on the their index. A data sets have one or multiple logic index, but physical index is unique.
Maybe a very naive question, but I am stuck in this: pandas.Series has a method sort_values and there is an option to do it "in place" or not. I have Googled for it a while, but I am not very clear about it. It seems that this thing is assumed to be perfectly known to everybody but me. Could anyone give me some illustrative explanation how these two options differ each other for dummies...?
Thank you for any assistance.