Search for “does-not-contain” on a DataFrame in pandas

Question

I\'ve done some searching and can\'t figure out how to filter a dataframe by df[\"col\"].str.contains(word), however I\'m wondering if there is a way to do the

Answer 1

I was having trouble with the not (~) symbol as well, so here's another way from another StackOverflow thread:

df[df["col"].str.contains('this|that')==False]