Why is 'key' an unexpected keyword of sort_values()

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I am trying to implement the code

sort_order = {
'Documentary':0,
'Film-Noir':1,
'Biography':2,
'History':3,
'War':4,
'News':5,
'Animation':6,
'Musical':7,
'Music':8,
'Drama':9
}

df.sort_values(by=['genre'], key=lambda x: x.map(sort_order))

But I receive this error:

TypeError: sort_values() got an unexpected keyword argument 'key'

I downloaded the latest version of Pandas to try and fix this using conda update pandas but this did not change anything. I know something is going wrong because their page here shows that key should be recognized.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

your version of Pandas might not be recent. I'd suggest you update to the latest version — sammywemmy
– sammywemmy, Commented Nov 1, 2020 at 6:01
I have already tried that. I used this 'conda update pandas' to update it. For some reason, it still doesn't work though. — BioFluorescent277
– BioFluorescent277, Commented Nov 1, 2020 at 6:03

Tibebes. M · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-01 06:16:43Z

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As mentioned in the comments section, Sorting with Keys is introduced in version 1.1.0.

You may run the following to update the package (note the -U flag):

python -m pip install -U pandas

answered Nov 1, 2020 at 6:16

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