Pandas & Data Analysis·Practice drills 5

Drill 11: Find the core line — Selecting and filtering

Point to the line that does the main work and explain why.

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  • Point to the line that does the main work and explain why.

Practice task

Point to the line that does the main work and explain why.

filter.pyPython
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({
    'course': ['HTML', 'CSS', 'SQL', 'CSS'],
    'minutes': [12, 18, 9, 22],
})

long_css = df[(df['course'] == 'CSS') & (df['minutes'] >= 20)]
print(long_css)
print(df.loc[df['minutes'].idxmax()])
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