Python | Pandas dataframe.filter()

Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.

Pandas dataframe.filter() function is used to Subset rows or columns of dataframe according to labels in the specified index. Note that this routine does not filter a dataframe on its contents. The filter is applied to the labels of the index.

Syntax: DataFrame.filter(items=None, like=None, regex=None, axis=None)



Parameters:
items : List of info axis to restrict to (must not all be present)
like : Keep info axis where “arg in col == True”
regex : Keep info axis with re.search(regex, col) == True
axis : The axis to filter on. By default this is the info axis, ‘index’ for Series, ‘columns’ for DataFrame

Returns : same type as input object

The items, like, and regex parameters are enforced to be mutually exclusive. axis defaults to the info axis that is used when indexing with [].

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Example #1: Use filter() function to filter out any three columns of the dataframe.

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# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
  
# Creating the dataframe 
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")
  
# Print the dataframe
df

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Now filter the “Name”, “College” and “Salary” columns.













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# applying filter function  


df.filter(["Name", "College", "Salary"]) 



















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Example #2:  Use filter() function to subset all columns in a dataframe which has the letter ‘a’ or ‘A’ in its name.


Note : filter() function also takes a regular expression as one of its parameter.













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# importing pandas as pd 


import pandas as pd 


  


# Creating the dataframe  


df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv") 


  


# Using regular expression to extract all 


# columns which has letter 'a' or 'A' in its name. 


df.filter(regex ='[aA]') 



















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The regular expression ‘[aA]’ looks for all column names which has an ‘a’ or an ‘A’ in its name.



          
          
          
          

            

    

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