Filter Pandas Data Frame based on exact string match

Question

I want to filter a pandas data frame based on exact match of a string.

I have a data frame as below

df1 = pd.DataFrame({\'vals\': [1, 2, 3, 4,5], \'i         


        

Answer 1

Keeping it simple, this should work:

df1[df1['ids'] == "aball"] 

Answer 2

You can try this:

df1[~(df1['ids'] == "aball")] 

Essentially it will find all entries matching "aball" and then negate it.