pandas filter out specific text code example

Example 1: filter by row contains pandas

In [3]: df[df['ids'].str.contains("ball")]  # removes all rows where 'ball' not in row['ids']
Out[3]:
     ids  vals
0  aball     1
1  bball     2
3  fball     4

Example 2: get columns containing string

df2 = df.filter(regex='spike')
print(df2)

Example 3: panda search strings in column

df[df['A'].str.contains("hello")]