Resolved: Python – How to search for entries in a panda dataframe based on entries (list) in another column?

Question:

I am new to Python and dataframes. I have a big panda dataframe I need to extract information from, I will try to explain my problem in a small example. Say my dataframe looks like this:
Now I have a list with entries that relate to the column “number”
and I want to have the corresponding entries in another list from the “name” column
Is there an existing function for this problem?

Answer:

You did not explain your desired output, but:
If you want to filter by one of the cirteria:
will leave you with rows within the numbers array.
If you want both:
Don’t forget the names array to strings:

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