How to select rows in pandas based on list of values

Question

I'm trying to find out a way how I can select rows in pandas dataframe based that some values will be in my list. For example

df = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(6).reshape(3,2), columns=['A','B'])
   A  B
0  0  1
1  2  3
2  4  5

I know that I can select certain row, e.g.

df[df.A==0]

will select me row with A=0. What I want is to select multiple rows whose values will be in my list, e.g. A in [0,2]. I tried

df[df.A in [0,2]]
df[list(df.A)==[0,2]]

but nothing works. In R language I can provide %in% operator. In python syntax we can use A in [0,2], etc. How I can select subset of rows in pandas in this case? Thanks, Valentin.

Answer 1

pd.isin() will select multiple values:

>>> df[df.A.isin([0,2])]
   A  B
0  0  1
1  2  3

Answer 2

if you don't like that syntax, you can use also use query (introduced in pandas 0.13 which is from 2014):

>>> df.query('A in [0,2]')
   A  B
0  0  1
1  2  3