Learning pandas

Selecting rows of a DataFrame by Boolean selection

Rows can also be selected by using Boolean selection, using an array calculated from the result of applying a logical condition on the values in any of the columns. This allows us to build more complicated selections than those based simply upon index labels or positions.

Consider the following that is an array of all companies that have a price below 100.0.

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   # what rows have a price < 100?
   sp500.Price < 100

Out[45]:
   Symbol
   MMM       False
   ABT        True
   ABBV       True
   ...
   ZMH       False
   ZION       True
   ZTS        True
   Name: Price, Length: 500, dtype: bool

This results in a Series that can be used to select the rows where the value is True, exactly the same way it was done with a Series or a NumPy array:

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