How to remove next pandas dataframe row when it's equal to previous row only for some columns

Question

I have created a dataframe called df with this code:

# initialize list of lists
data = {'ID': [1,2,3,4,5,6,7],
        'feature1': [100,32,100,100,100,93,100],
        'feature2': [100,32,100,100,100,93,100],
        'feature3': [100,32,100,100,100,93,100],
        }
 
# Create DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(data)

The dataframe looks like this:

print(df)

   ID  feature1  feature2  feature3
0   1       100       100       100
1   2        32        32        32
2   3       100       100       100
3   4       100       100       100
4   5       100       100       100
5   6        93        93        93
6   7       100       100       100

I want to remove the rows in which the values of columns:

• feature1 and
• feature2 and
• feature3 are exactly the same as the previous row. In the example above, I need to remove rows 3 and 4 , so that the resulting dataframe will look like this:

Answer 1

Filter the feature like columns then calculate difference between previous and current row and check whether the difference is 0 for all the feature columns

df[~df.filter(like='feature').diff().eq(0).all(1)]

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   ID  feature1  feature2  feature3
0   1       100       100       100
1   2        32        32        32
2   3       100       100       100
5   6        93        93        93
6   7       100       100       100