Search for a value anywhere in a pandas DataFrame

Question

This seems like a simple question, but I couldn\'t find it asked before (this and this are close but the answers aren\'t great).

The question is: if I want to searc

Answer 1

You should using isin , this is return the column , is want row check cold' answer :-)

df.isin(['bal1']).any()
A        False
B         True
C        False
CLASS    False
dtype: bool

Or

df[df.isin(['bal1'])].stack() # level 0 index is row index , level 1 index is columns which contain that value 
0  B    bal1
1  B    bal1
dtype: object