Filter pandas dataframe on columns if contains *

Question

I have a pandas dataframe where some column values have a astrix *.

I want to remoeve rows that have this.

I have tries this but its not working

df.loc[~(df['col_name'].str.contains('*'))]

Answer 1

Because * is special regex character add regex=False to Series.str.contains :

df.loc[~(df['col_name'].str.contains('*', regex=False))]

Or escape * :

df.loc[~(df['col_name'].str.contains('\*'))]