How to select rows that do not start with some str in pandas?

Question

I want to select rows that the values do not start with some str. For example, I have a pandas df, and I want to select data do not start with t, a

Answer 1

You can use str.startswith and negate it.

    df[~df['col'].str.startswith('t') & 
       ~df['col'].str.startswith('c')]

col
1   mext1
3   okl1

Or the better option, with multiple characters in a tuple as per @Ted Petrou:

df[~df['col'].str.startswith(('t','c'))]

    col
1   mext1
3   okl1