apply a filter to a column in pandas code example

Example 1: how to apply filters in pandas

# filter rows for year 2002 using  the boolean expression
>gapminder_2002 = gapminder[gapminder.year.eq(2002)]
>print(gapminder_2002.shape)
(142, 6)

Example 2: pandas filter

#To select rows whose column value is in list 
years = [1952, 2007]
gapminder.year.isin(years)