Python Pandas dropping Non numerical rows from columns

Question

I have a dataframe and want to drop the non numerical rows in the column Score

import pandas as pd

df=pd.DataFrame({
'Score': [4.0,6,'3 1/3',7,'43a'],
'Foo': ['Nis','and stimpy','d','cab','abba'],
'Faggio':[0,1,0,1,0]
})

The result I want should look like:

   Faggio         Foo  Score
0       0         Nis      4
1       1  and stimpy      6
3       1         cab      7

I have tried:

ds=df[df['Score'].apply(lambda x: str(x).isnumeric())]

print(ds)

ds2=df[df['Score'].apply(lambda x: str(x).isdigit())]

print(ds2)

But both of them erased the column with the float.

Answer 1

I think you need add isnull for checking NaN values, because your function return NaN if not number. Better and faster is use text method str.isnumeric() and str.isdigit() with boolean indexing :

print df['Score'].str.isnumeric()
0      NaN
1      NaN
2    False
3      NaN
4    False
Name: Score, dtype: object

print df['Score'].str.isnumeric().isnull()
0     True
1     True
2    False
3     True
4    False
Name: Score, dtype: bool

print df[df['Score'].str.isnumeric().isnull()]
   Faggio         Foo Score
0       0         Nis     4
1       1  and stimpy     6
3       1         cab     7

print df[df['Score'].str.isdigit().isnull()]
   Faggio         Foo Score
0       0         Nis     4
1       1  and stimpy     6
3       1         cab     7

Similar solution with to_numeric and notnull :

print df[pd.to_numeric(df['Score'], errors='coerce').notnull()]
   Faggio         Foo Score
0       0         Nis     4
1       1  and stimpy     6
3       1         cab     7