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# pandas.Series.filter

`Series.``filter`(items=None, like=None, regex=None, axis=None)

  Restrict the info axis to set of items or wildcard

  Parameters : | items : list-like List of info axis to restrict to (must not all be present) like : string Keep info axis where “arg in col == True” regex : string (regular expression) Keep info axis with re.search(regex, col) == True axis : int or None The axis to filter on. By default this is the info axis. The “info axis” is the axis that is used when indexing with `[]`. For example, `df = DataFrame({'a': [1, 2, 3, 4]]}); df['a']`. So, the `DataFrame` columns are the info axis.

  Notes

  Arguments are mutually exclusive, but this is not checked for

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