.
        inplace : bool, default False
            Whether to modify the DataFrame rather than creating a new one.
        kind : {'quicksort', 'mergesort', 'heapsort', 'stable'}, default 'quicksort'
            Choice of sorting algorithm. See also :func:`numpy.sort` for more
            information. `mergesort` and `stable` are the only stable algorithms. For
            DataFrames, this option is only applied when sorting on a single
            column or label.
        na_position : {'first', 'last'}, default 'last'
            Puts NaNs at the beginning if `first`; `last` puts NaNs at the end.
            Not implemented for MultiIndex.
        sort_remaining : bool, default True
            If True and sorting by level and index is multilevel, sort by other
            levels too (in order) after sorting by specified level.
        ignore_index : bool, default False
            If True, the resulting axis will be labeled 0, 1, …, n - 1.
        key : callable, optional
            If not None, apply the key function to the index values
            before sorting. This is similar to the `key` argument in the
            builtin :meth:`sorted` function, with the notable difference that
            this `key` function should be *vectorized*. It should expect an
            ``Index`` and return an ``Index`` of the same shape. For MultiIndex
            inputs, the key is applied *per level*.

        Returns
        -------
        DataFrame or None
            The original DataFrame sorted by the labels or None if ``inplace=True``.

        See Also
        --------
        Series.sort_index : Sort Series by the index.
        DataFrame.sort_values : Sort DataFrame by the value.
        Series.sort_values : Sort Series by the value.

        Examples
        --------
        >>> df = pd.DataFrame([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], index=[100, 29, 234, 1, 150],
        ...                   columns=['A'])
        >>> df.sort_index()
             A
        1    4
        29   2
        100  1
        150  5
        234  3

        By default, it sorts in ascending order, to sort in descending order,
        use ``ascending=False``

        >>> df.sort_index(ascending=False)
             A
        234  3
        150  5
        100  1
        29   2
        1    4

        A key function can be specified which is applied to the index before
        sorting. For a ``MultiIndex`` this is applied to each level separately.

        >>> df = pd.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2, 3, 4]}, index=['A', 'b', 'C', 'd'])
        >>> df.sort_index(key=lambda x: x.str.lower())
           a
        A  1
        b  2
        C  3
        d  4
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