Sort a pandas's dataframe series by month name?

Question

I have a Series object that has:

    date   price
    dec      12
    may      15
    apr      13
    ..

Problem statement:

Answer 1

I would use the calender module and reindex:

series.str.capitalize helps capitalizing the series , then we create a dictionary with the calender module and map with the series to get month number.

Once we have the month number we can sort_values() and get the index. Then reindex .

import calendar
df.date=df.date.str.capitalize() #capitalizes the series
d={i:e for e,i in enumerate(calendar.month_abbr)} #creates a dictionary
#d={i[:3]:e for e,i in enumerate(calendar.month_name)} 
df.reindex(df.date.map(d).sort_values().index) #map + sort_values + reindex with index

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  date  price
2  Apr     13
1  May     15
0  Dec     12