# numpy.ma.masked_array.sort

method

ma.masked_array.sort(axis=-1, kind=None, order=None, endwith=True, fill_value=None)

  Sort the array, in-place

  Parameters:
    a array_like

      Array to be sorted.

    axis int, optional

      Axis along which to sort. If None, the array is flattened before sorting. The default is -1, which sorts along the last axis.

    kind{‘quicksort’, ‘mergesort’, ‘heapsort’, ‘stable’}, optional

      The sorting algorithm used.

    order list, optional

      When a is a structured array, this argument specifies which fields to compare first, second, and so on. This list does not need to include all of the fields.

    endwith{True, False}, optional

      Whether missing values (if any) should be treated as the largest values (True) or the smallest values (False) When the array contains unmasked values sorting at the same extremes of the datatype, the ordering of these values and the masked values is undefined.

    fill_value scalar or None, optional

      Value used internally for the masked values. If `fill_value` is not None, it supersedes `endwith`.

  Returns:
    sorted_array ndarray

      Array of the same type and shape as a.

  See also

  `numpy.ndarray.sort`

    Method to sort an array in-place.

  `argsort`

    Indirect sort.

  `lexsort`

    Indirect stable sort on multiple keys.

  `searchsorted`

    Find elements in a sorted array.

  Notes

  See `sort` for notes on the different sorting algorithms.

  Examples

      >>> a = np.ma.array([1, 2, 5, 4, 3],mask=[0, 1, 0, 1, 0])
      >>> # Default
      >>> a.sort()
      >>> a
      masked_array(data=[1, 3, 5, --, --],
                   mask=[False, False, False,  True,  True],
             fill_value=999999)

      >>> a = np.ma.array([1, 2, 5, 4, 3],mask=[0, 1, 0, 1, 0])
      >>> # Put missing values in the front
      >>> a.sort(endwith=False)
      >>> a
      masked_array(data=[--, --, 1, 3, 5],
                   mask=[ True,  True, False, False, False],
             fill_value=999999)

      >>> a = np.ma.array([1, 2, 5, 4, 3],mask=[0, 1, 0, 1, 0])
      >>> # fill_value takes over endwith
      >>> a.sort(endwith=False, fill_value=3)
      >>> a
      masked_array(data=[1, --, --, 3, 5],
                   mask=[False,  True,  True, False, False],
             fill_value=999999)