How to filter Pandas dataframe using ‘in’ and ‘not in’ like in SQL

You can use pd.Series.isin. For “IN” use: something.isin(somewhere) Or for “NOT IN”: ~something.isin(somewhere) As a worked example: import pandas as pd >>> df country 0 US 1 UK 2 Germany 3 China >>> countries_to_keep [‘UK’, ‘China’] >>> df.country.isin(countries_to_keep) 0 False 1 True 2 False 3 True Name: country, dtype: bool >>> df[df.country.isin(countries_to_keep)] country 1 UK … Read more