List Highest Correlation Pairs from a Large Correlation Matrix in Pandas?

Question

How do you find the top correlations in a correlation matrix with Pandas? There are many answers on how to do this with R (Show correlations as an ordered list, not as a lar

Answer 1

I was trying some of the solutions here but then I actually came up with my own one. I hope this might be useful for the next one so I share it here:

def sort_correlation_matrix(correlation_matrix):
    cor = correlation_matrix.abs()
    top_col = cor[cor.columns[0]][1:]
    top_col = top_col.sort_values(ascending=False)
    ordered_columns = [cor.columns[0]] + top_col.index.tolist()
    return correlation_matrix[ordered_columns].reindex(ordered_columns)