bigframes.pandas.DataFrame.select_dtypes

DataFrame.select_dtypes(include=None, exclude=None) → DataFrame

Return a subset of the DataFrame’s columns based on the column dtypes.

Examples:

>>> df = bpd.DataFrame({'col1': [1, 2], 'col2': ["hello", "world"], 'col3': [True, False]})
>>> df.select_dtypes(include=['Int64'])
   col1
0     1
1     2

[2 rows x 1 columns]

>>> df.select_dtypes(exclude=['Int64'])
    col2   col3
0  hello   True
1  world  False

[2 rows x 2 columns]

Parameters:

• include (scalar or list-like) – A selection of dtypes or strings to be included.

• exclude (scalar or list-like) – A selection of dtypes or strings to be excluded.

Returns:

The subset of the frame including the dtypes in include and excluding the dtypes in exclude.

Return type:

bigframes.pandas.DataFrame