pandas not in list
>>> df countries 0 US 1 UK 2 Germany 3 China >>> countries ['UK', 'China'] >>> df.countries.isin(countries) 0 False 1 True 2 False 3 True Name: countries, dtype: bool >>> df[df.countries.isin(countries)] countries 1 UK 3 China >>> df[~df.countries.isin(countries)] countries 0 US 2 Germany