what is equavilant of filter in pandas code example

Example 1: pandas filter

>continents = ['Asia','Africa', 'Americas', 'Europe']
>gapminder_Ocean = gapminder[~gapminder.continent.isin(continents)]
>gapminder_Ocean.shape 
(24,6)

Example 2: pandas filter

#To select rows whose column value is in list 
years = [1952, 2007]
gapminder.year.isin(years)