Check if a string in a Pandas DataFrame column is in a list of strings

Question

If I have a frame like this

frame = pd.DataFrame({\'a\' : [\'the cat is blue\', \'the sky is green\', \'the dog is black\']})

and I want to

Answer 1

For list should work

print frame[frame['a'].isin(mylist)]     

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.isin.html