Remove rows where a column contains a specific substring

Question

how to eliminate rown that have a word i don't want? I have this DataFrame:

index  price    description
0      15       Kit 10 Esponjas Para Cartuchos Jato De Tinta ...
1      15       Snap Fill Para Cartuchos Hp 60 61 122 901 21 ...
2      16       Clips Para Cartuchos Hp 21 22 60 74 75 92 93 ...

I'm trying to remove the rown with the word 'esponja'

i want a DataFrame like this:

index  price    description
    1      15       Snap Fill Para Cartuchos Hp 60 61 122 901 21 ...
    2      16       Clips Para Cartuchos Hp 21 22 60 74 75 92 93 ...

i'm newbe, i don't have any idea how to resolve that

timgeb · Answer 1 · 2020-06-08T20:44:09.067

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Create a boolean mask by checking for strings that contain 'Esponjas', then index into your dataframe with the negated mask.

df[~df['description'].str.contains('Esponjas')]

If you are unsure what's going on, print out what

df['description']
df['description'].str.contains('Esponjas')
~df['description'].str.contains('Esponjas')

do on their own. If you want to perform the substring-check case-insensitively, use case=False as a keyword argument to str.contains.

edited Jun 08 '20 at 20:44

answered Jun 08 '20 at 20:41

timgeb

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i would add `case=False` to ignore the case – Umar.H Jun 08 '20 at 20:43
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@Datanovice thanks, good suggestion. – timgeb Jun 08 '20 at 20:44
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thank you very much for your attention – Gabriel Mantuan Jun 08 '20 at 20:48

Remove rows where a column contains a specific substring

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