get rows where column equals pandas code example

Example 1: only keep rows of a dataframe based on a column value

df.loc[df['column_name'] == some_value]

Example 2: select rows which entries equals one of the values pandas

In[10]: df
Name     Amount
---------------
Alice       100
Bob          50
Charlie     200
Alice        30
Charlie      10

In [11]: df['Name'].isin(['Alice', 'Bob'])
Out[11]: 
0     True
1     True
2    False
3     True
4    False
Name: Name, dtype: bool

In [12]: df[df.Name.isin(['Alice', 'Bob'])]
Out[12]: 
    Name  Amount
0  Alice     100
1    Bob      50
3  Alice      30

Example 3: selecting a specific value and corrersponding value in df python

#To select rows whose column value equals a scalar, some_value, use ==:df.loc[df['favorite_color'] == 'yellow']