pandas.DataFrame.select_dtypes

DataFrame.select_dtypes(include=None, exclude=None)

Return a subset of a DataFrame including/excluding columns based on their dtype.

Parameters:

include, exclude : list-like

A list of dtypes or strings to be included/excluded. You must pass in a non-empty sequence for at least one of these.

Returns:

subset : DataFrame

The subset of the frame including the dtypes in include and excluding the dtypes in exclude.

Raises:

ValueError

• If both of include and exclude are empty
• If include and exclude have overlapping elements
• If any kind of string dtype is passed in.

TypeError

• If either of include or exclude is not a sequence

Notes

• To select all numeric types use the numpy dtype numpy.number
• To select strings you must use the object dtype, but note that this will return all object dtype columns
• See the numpy dtype hierarchy
• To select datetimes, use np.datetime64, ‘datetime’ or ‘datetime64’
• To select timedeltas, use np.timedelta64, ‘timedelta’ or ‘timedelta64’
• To select Pandas categorical dtypes, use ‘category’
• To select Pandas datetimetz dtypes, use ‘datetimetz’ (new in 0.20.0), or a ‘datetime64[ns, tz]’ string

Examples

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'a': np.random.randn(6).astype('f4'),
...                    'b': [True, False] * 3,
...                    'c': [1.0, 2.0] * 3})
>>> df
        a      b  c
0  0.3962   True  1
1  0.1459  False  2
2  0.2623   True  1
3  0.0764  False  2
4 -0.9703   True  1
5 -1.2094  False  2
>>> df.select_dtypes(include=['float64'])
   c
0  1
1  2
2  1
3  2
4  1
5  2
>>> df.select_dtypes(exclude=['floating'])
       b
0   True
1  False
2   True
3  False
4   True
5  False