pandas: filter rows of DataFrame with operator chaining

Question

Most operations in pandas can be accomplished with operator chaining (groupby, aggregate, apply, etc), but the only way I

Answer 1

I offer this for additional examples. This is the same answer as https://stackoverflow.com/a/28159296/

I'll add other edits to make this post more useful.

pandas.DataFrame.query
query was made for exactly this purpose. Consider the dataframe df

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

np.random.seed([3,1415])
df = pd.DataFrame(
    np.random.randint(10, size=(10, 5)),
    columns=list('ABCDE')
)

df

   A  B  C  D  E
0  0  2  7  3  8
1  7  0  6  8  6
2  0  2  0  4  9
3  7  3  2  4  3
4  3  6  7  7  4
5  5  3  7  5  9
6  8  7  6  4  7
7  6  2  6  6  5
8  2  8  7  5  8
9  4  7  6  1  5

Let's use query to filter all rows where D > B

df.query('D > B')

   A  B  C  D  E
0  0  2  7  3  8
1  7  0  6  8  6
2  0  2  0  4  9
3  7  3  2  4  3
4  3  6  7  7  4
5  5  3  7  5  9
7  6  2  6  6  5

Which we chain

df.query('D > B').query('C > B')
# equivalent to
# df.query('D > B and C > B')
# but defeats the purpose of demonstrating chaining

   A  B  C  D  E
0  0  2  7  3  8
1  7  0  6  8  6
4  3  6  7  7  4
5  5  3  7  5  9
7  6  2  6  6  5