Sort pandas dataframe using icu locale

gistfile1.txt

import PyICU

# below from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13838405/custom-sorting-in-pandas-dataframe

df = token_count
locale = 'UR.UTF-8'
collator = icu.Collator.createInstance(icu.Locale(locale))

def sort_pd(key=None,reverse=False,cmp=None):
    def sorter(series):
        series_list = list(series)
        return [series_list.index(i) 
           for i in sorted(series_list,key=key,reverse=reverse,cmp=cmp)]
    return sorter

sort_by_custom_dict = sort_pd(key=collator.getSortKey)

df.iloc[sort_by_custom_dict(df.index)]