Pandas - equivalent of str.contains() in pandas query

Question

Creating a dataframe using subsetting with below conditions

subset_df = df_eq.loc[(df_eq['place'].str.contains('Chile')) & (df_eq['mag'] > 7.5),['time','latitude','longitude','mag','place']]

Want to replicate the above subset using query() in Pandas.However not sure how to replicate str.contains() equivalent in Pandas query. "like" in query doesn't seem to work

query_df = df_eq[['time','latitude','longitude','mag','place']].query('place like \'%Chile\' and mag > 7.5')

place like '%Chile'and mag >7.5 
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any help will be appreciated

Answer 1

As of now I am able to do this by using the engine='python' argument of the .query method to use str.contains inside a query.

This should work:

query_df = df_eq[['time', 'latitude', 'longitude', 'mag', 'place']].query(
    "place.str.contains('Chile') and mag > 7.5", engine="python")

Answer 2

What I think is going on here is that you are not able to utilize the method str.contains within the query pandas method. What you can do is create a mask and refer to that mask from within query using the at sign (@). Try this:

my_mask = df_eq["feature"].str.contains('my_word')
df_eq.query("@my_mask")

Answer 3

Using str.contains works for me in pandas 1.0.0 with this syntax:

df.query("columnA == 'foo' and columnB.str.contains('bar')")