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

You can add the numerical month value together with the name in the index (i.e "01 January"), do a sort then strip off the number:

total=(df.groupby(df['date'].dt.strftime('%m %B'))['price'].mean()).sort_index()

It may look sth like this:

01 January  xxx
02 February     yyy
03 March    zzz
04 April    ttt

 total.index = [ x.split()[1] for x in total.index ]

January xxx
February yyy
March zzz
April ttt