only keep rows with certain values pandas code example

Example 1: fetch row where column is equal to a value pandas

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

Example 2: only keep rows of a dataframe based on a column value

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

Example 3: how to select rows based on column value pandas

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

Example 4: filter df by column value

# does year equals to 2002?
# is_2002 is a boolean variable with True or False in it
>is_2002 =  gapminder['year']==2002
>print(is_2002.head())
0    False
1    False
2    False
3    False
4    False