pandas get rows which are NOT in other dataframe

Question

I\'ve two pandas data frames which have some rows in common.

Suppose dataframe2 is a subset of dataframe1.

How can I get the rows of dataframe1 which

Answer 1

Assuming that the indexes are consistent in the dataframes (not taking into account the actual col values):

df1[~df1.index.isin(df2.index)]