Select from pandas dataframe using boolean series/array

Question

I have a dataframe:

             High    Low  Close
Date                           
2009-02-11  30.20  29.41  29.87
2009-02-12  30.28  29.32  30.24
2009-02-13  3         


        

Answer 1

For the indexing to work with two DataFrames they have to have comparable indexes. In this case it won't work because one DataFrame has an integer index, while the other has dates.

However, as you say you can filter using a bool array. You can access the array for a Series via .values. This can be then applied as a filter as follows:

df # pandas.DataFrame
s  # pandas.Series 

df[s.values] # df, filtered by the bool array in s

For example, with your data:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame([
            [30.20,  29.41,  29.87],
            [30.28,  29.32,  30.24],
            [30.45,  29.96,  30.10],
            [29.35,  28.74,  28.90],
            [29.35,  28.56,  28.92],
        ],
        columns=['High','Low','Close'], 
        index=['2009-02-11','2009-02-12','2009-02-13','2009-02-17','2009-02-18']
        )

s = pd.Series([True, False, False, True, False], name='bools')

df[s.values]

Returns the following:

            High    Low     Close
2009-02-11  30.20   29.41   29.87
2009-02-17  29.35   28.74   28.90

If you just want the High column, you can filter this as normal (before, or after the bool filter):

df['High'][s.values]
# Or: df[s.values]['High']

To get your target output (as a Series):

 2009-02-11    30.20
 2009-02-17    29.35
 Name: High, dtype: float64