Python | Pandas dataframe.select_dtypes()

Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier. Pandas dataframe.select_dtypes() function return a subset of the DataFrame’s columns based on the column dtypes. The parameters of this function can be set to include all the columns having some specific data type or it could be set to exclude all those columns which has some specific data types.

Syntax : DataFrame.select_dtypes(include=None, exclude=None) Parameters : include, exclude : A selection of dtypes or strings to be included/excluded. At least one of these parameters must be supplied. Return : The subset of the frame including the dtypes in include and excluding the dtypes in exclude.

For link to the CSV file used in the code, click here Example #1: Use select_dtypes() function to select all the columns which are having floating data types. Python3

# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# Creating the dataframe 
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# Print the dataframe
df

Let's use the dataframe.select_dtypes() function to select all columns having float data type in the dataframe. Python3 1==

# select all columns having float datatype
df.select_dtypes(include ='float64')

Output :   Example #2: Use select_dtypes() function to select all the columns in the dataframe except those columns which are of float data type. Python3

# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# Creating the dataframe 
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# select all columns except float based
df.select_dtypes(exclude ='float64')

Output :