ENH: Implement DataFrame.select #61527
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doc/source/whatsnew/vX.X.X.rst
file if fixing a bug or adding a new feature.Based on the feedback in #61522 and on the last devs call, I implemented
DataFrame.select
in the most simple way. It does work withMultiIndex
, but it does not support equivalents tofilter(regex=)
orfilter(like=
) directly. I added examples in the docs, so users can do that easily in Python (I can add one for regex if people think it's worth it).The examples in the docs and the tests should make quite clear what's the behavior, feedback welcome.
For context, this is added so we can make
DataFrame.filter
focus on filtering rows, for example:or
CC: @pandas-dev/pandas-core