filter column with specific value 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: 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)