Unable to query a local variable in pandas 0.14.0

Question

I can query an explicit value:

fills.query(\'Symbol==\"BUD US\"\')

Now I want to query a variable:

In [40]: my_symbol
Out[4         


        

Answer 1

Seems a bug in 0.14, specifically with strings (works eg with ints). I filed an issue here: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/7300.
As a workaround for now, you can wrap it in a list:

In [40]: fills
Out[40]: 
    Price  Symbol
0  109.70  BUD US
1  109.72  BUD US
2  183.30  IBM US
3  183.35  IBM US

In [41]: my_symbol = ['BUD US']

In [42]: fills.query('Symbol==@my_symbol')
Out[42]: 
    Price  Symbol
0  109.70  BUD US
1  109.72  BUD US