From d0bcb06ba0213a369cd4d7682084b0f4cd440239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Buyl <jonas.buyl@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 14:37:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix column reordering

---
 doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt |  2 +-
 pandas/io/stata.py              | 14 ++++++--------
 pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py   |  8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
index 9a9054fcf0489..aa96aacd6f0dd 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.plot`` raises ``ValueError`` when color name is specified by multiple characters (:issue:`10387`)
 
 
-
+- Bug in ``read_stata`` when reading a file with a different order set in ``columns`` (:issue:`10757`)
 
 - Reading "famafrench" data via ``DataReader`` results in HTTP 404 error because of the website url is changed (:issue:`10591`).
 - Bug in ``read_msgpack`` where DataFrame to decode has duplicate column names (:issue:`9618`)
diff --git a/pandas/io/stata.py b/pandas/io/stata.py
index 0266e2beeca40..5afbc2671e3a7 100644
--- a/pandas/io/stata.py
+++ b/pandas/io/stata.py
@@ -1614,14 +1614,12 @@ def _do_select_columns(self, data, columns):
             typlist = []
             fmtlist = []
             lbllist = []
-            matched = set()
-            for i, col in enumerate(data.columns):
-                if col in column_set:
-                    matched.update([col])
-                    dtyplist.append(self.dtyplist[i])
-                    typlist.append(self.typlist[i])
-                    fmtlist.append(self.fmtlist[i])
-                    lbllist.append(self.lbllist[i])
+            for col in columns:
+                i = data.columns.get_loc(col)
+                dtyplist.append(self.dtyplist[i])
+                typlist.append(self.typlist[i])
+                fmtlist.append(self.fmtlist[i])
+                lbllist.append(self.lbllist[i])
 
             self.dtyplist = dtyplist
             self.typlist = typlist
diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py b/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py
index aa9f27d1515d3..5b934bad38bd3 100644
--- a/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py
+++ b/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py
@@ -782,6 +782,14 @@ def test_drop_column(self):
                              columns=columns)
 
         tm.assert_frame_equal(expected, dropped)
+
+        # See PR 10757
+        columns = ['int_', 'long_', 'byte_']
+        expected = expected[columns]
+        reordered = read_stata(self.dta15_117, convert_dates=True,
+                               columns=columns)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(expected, reordered)
+
         with tm.assertRaises(ValueError):
             columns = ['byte_', 'byte_']
             read_stata(self.dta15_117, convert_dates=True, columns=columns)