Pandas: Find rows which don't exist in another DataFrame by multiple columns

Question

same as this python pandas: how to find rows in one dataframe but not in another? but with multiple columns

This is the setup:

import pandas as pd

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Answer 1

Interesting

cols = ['col1','col2']
#get copies where the indeces are the columns of interest
df2 = df.set_index(cols)
other2 = other.set_index(cols)
#Look for index overlap, ~
df[~df2.index.isin(other2.index)]

Returns:

    col1 col2  extra_col
0     0    a       this
2     1    c       just
3     2    b  something

Seems a little bit more elegant...