How to select multiple columns along with a condition based on the column of a Pandas dataFrame column. It was asked by one of my fellow teacher. Before we solve the issue let’s try to understand what is the problem.

Suppose we have a CSV file with the following data

The problem is he wants the name and marks obtained by all the students who are able to score more than 40 marks. The first solution was something like this

>>>import pandas as pd
>>>df = pd.read_csv(r'c:/users/rakesh/desktop/qp.csv')
>>>df
 RLN          NAME  Eng  hin  math  sci
0    1  Harish Kumar   50   47    45   40
1    2  Guneet Arora   49   46    47   48
2    3  Naysha Singh   40   45    50   49
3    4    Vasu Kumar   43   46    48   44
4    5   Divya Sagar   43   38    42   41
>>>df1 = df[['NAME','Eng']]

The above part will generate a new dataframe from our existing dataframe having only two columns ‘NAME’ and ‘Eng’. The result of the df1 is something like this

>>>df1
   RLN          NAME  Eng  hin  math  sci
0    1  Harish Kumar   50   47    45   40
1    2  Guneet Arora   49   46    47   48
2    3  Naysha Singh   40   45    50   49
3    4    Vasu Kumar   43   46    48   44
4    5   Divya Sagar   43   38    42   41

now filter this data frame with our filter command

>>>df1[df['Eng'>40]]
           NAME  Eng
0  Harish Kumar   50
1  Guneet Arora   49
3    Vasu Kumar   43
4   Divya Sagar   43

BUT the answer was not acceptable by my friends as he wanted all this query in a single row. so we came up with the following solution with the pandas query method

>>>df[['NAME','Eng']].query('Eng>40')
          NAME  Eng
0  Harish Kumar   50
1  Guneet Arora   49
3    Vasu Kumar   43
4   Divya Sagar   43

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