How to filter Pandas dataframe using 'in' and 'not in' like in SQL

How can I achieve the equivalents of SQL's IN and NOT IN?

I have a list with the required values. Here's the scenario:

df = pd.DataFrame({'country': ['US', 'UK', 'Germany', 'China']})
countries_to_keep = ['UK', 'China']

# pseudo-code:
df[df['country'] not in countries_to_keep]

My current way of doing this is as follows:

df = pd.DataFrame({'country': ['US', 'UK', 'Germany', 'China']})
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'country': ['UK', 'China'], 'matched': True})

# IN
df.merge(df2, how='inner', on='country')

# NOT IN
not_in = df.merge(df2, how='left', on='country')
not_in = not_in[pd.isnull(not_in['matched'])]

But this seems like a horrible kludge. Can anyone improve on it?

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
3     China
>>> df[~df.country.isin(countries_to_keep)]
  country
0        US
2   Germany

Alternative solution that uses .query() method:

In [5]: df.query("countries in @countries_to_keep")
Out[5]:
  countries
1        UK
3     China

In [6]: df.query("countries not in @countries_to_keep")
Out[6]:
  countries
0        US
2   Germany

> ## How to implement 'in' and 'not in' for a pandas DataFrame?

Pandas offers two methods: Series.isin and DataFrame.isin for Series and DataFrames, respectively.

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Filter DataFrame Based on ONE Column (also applies to Series)

The most common scenario is applying an isin condition on a specific column to filter rows in a DataFrame.

df = pd.DataFrame({'countries': ['US', 'UK', 'Germany', np.nan, 'China']})
df
  countries
0        US
1        UK
2   Germany
3     China

c1 = ['UK', 'China']             # list
c2 = {'Germany'}                 # set
c3 = pd.Series(['China', 'US'])  # Series
c4 = np.array(['US', 'UK'])      # array

I've been usually doing generic filtering over rows like this:

criterion = lambda row: row['countries'] not in countries
not_in = df[df.apply(criterion, axis=1)]

Collating possible solutions from the answers:

For IN: df[df['A'].isin([3, 6])]

For NOT IN:

1. df[-df["A"].isin([3, 6])]

2. df[~df["A"].isin([3, 6])]

3. df[df["A"].isin([3, 6]) == False]

4. df[np.logical_not(df["A"].isin([3, 6]))]

I wanted to filter out dfbc rows that had a BUSINESS_ID that was also in the BUSINESS_ID of dfProfilesBusIds

dfbc = dfbc[~dfbc['BUSINESS_ID'].isin(dfProfilesBusIds['BUSINESS_ID'])]

Why is no one talking about the performance of various filtering methods? In fact, this topic often pops up here (see the example). I did my own performance test for a large data set. It is very interesting and instructive.

df = pd.DataFrame({'animals': np.random.choice(['cat', 'dog', 'mouse', 'birds'], size=10**7), 
                   'number': np.random.randint(0,100, size=(10**7,))})

df.info()

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 10000000 entries, 0 to 9999999
Data columns (total 2 columns):
 #   Column   Dtype 
---  ------   ----- 
 0   animals  object
 1   number   int64 
dtypes: int64(1), object(1)
memory usage: 152.6+ MB

%%timeit
# .isin() by one column
conditions = ['cat', 'dog']
df[df.animals.isin(conditions)]

367 ms ± 2.34 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%%timeit
# .query() by one column
conditions = ['cat', 'dog']
df.query('animals in @conditions')

395 ms ± 3.9 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%%timeit
# .loc[]
df.loc[(df.animals=='cat')|(df.animals=='dog')]

987 ms ± 5.17 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%%timeit
df[df.apply(lambda x: x['animals'] in ['cat', 'dog'], axis=1)]

41.9 s ± 490 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%%timeit
new_df = df.set_index('animals')
new_df.loc[['cat', 'dog'], :]

3.64 s ± 62.5 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%%timeit
new_df = df.set_index('animals')
new_df[new_df.index.isin(['cat', 'dog'])]

469 ms ± 8.98 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%%timeit
s = pd.Series(['cat', 'dog'], name='animals')
df.merge(s, on='animals', how='inner')

796 ms ± 30.9 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

Thus, the isin method turned out to be the fastest and the method with apply() was the slowest, which is not surprising.

df = pd.DataFrame({'countries':['US','UK','Germany','China']})
countries = ['UK','China']

implement in:

df[df.countries.isin(countries)]

implement not in as in of rest countries:

df[df.countries.isin([x for x in np.unique(df.countries) if x not in countries])]

You can also use .isin() inside .query():

df.query('country.isin(@countries_to_keep).values')

# Or alternatively:
df.query('country.isin(["UK", "China"]).values')

To negate your query, use ~:

df.query('~country.isin(@countries_to_keep).values')

A trick if you want to keep the order of the list:

df = pd.DataFrame({'country': ['US', 'UK', 'Germany', 'China']})
countries_to_keep = ['Germany', 'US']


ind=[df.index[df['country']==i].tolist() for i in countries_to_keep]
flat_ind=[item for sublist in ind for item in sublist]

df.reindex(flat_ind)

   country
2  Germany
0       US

My 2c worth: I needed a combination of in and ifelse statements for a dataframe, and this worked for me.

sale_method = pd.DataFrame(model_data["Sale Method"].str.upper())
sale_method["sale_classification"] = np.where(
    sale_method["Sale Method"].isin(["PRIVATE"]),
    "private",
    np.where(
        sale_method["Sale Method"].str.contains("AUCTION"), "auction", "other"
    ),
)