pandas just keep the rows with values in a list code example
Example 1: dataframe slice by list of values
In [1]: df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [5,6,3,4], 'B': [1,2,3,5]})
In [2]: df
Out[2]:
A B
0 5 1
1 6 2
2 3 3
3 4 5
In [3]: df[df['A'].isin([3, 6])]
Out[3]:
A B
1 6 2
2 3 3
Example 2: pandas dataframe select rows not in list
df[~df.isin(subset).iloc[:,0]]