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I have a dataframe and want to only show columns with headers containing a particular string(s).

df.loc[:,df.columns.str.contains(['BB','TP'])]

So this would only show columns that contain BB or TP. This doesn't work for 2 conditions however.

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    Can you add some sample data and expected output? Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 12:03
  • Good idea, that works Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 12:13
  • df.loc[:,df.columns.str.contains('|'.join('BB','TP')] Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 12:14

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Use:

L = ['BB','TP']
df.loc[:, df.columns.str.contains('|'.join(L)]
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