python select column code example

Example 1: select rows from dataframe pandas

from pandas import DataFrame

boxes = {'Color': ['Green','Green','Green','Blue','Blue','Red','Red','Red'],
         'Shape': ['Rectangle','Rectangle','Square','Rectangle','Square','Square','Square','Rectangle'],
         'Price': [10,15,5,5,10,15,15,5]
        }

df = DataFrame(boxes, columns= ['Color','Shape','Price'])

select_color = df.loc[df['Color'] == 'Green']
print (select_color)

Example 2: select columns pandas

df1 = df.iloc[:,0:2] # Remember that Python does not slice inclusive of the ending index.

Example 3: select columns in pandas df

In [8]: age_sex = titanic[["Age", "Sex"]]

In [9]: age_sex.head()
Out[9]: 
    Age     Sex
0  22.0    male
1  38.0  female
2  26.0  female
3  35.0  female
4  35.0    male

Example 4: selecting items in a column of a dataframe

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