Pandas Methods to read data are all named read * to ...

s_df.loc[rows] df.loc[:, cols_list] df.loc[rows, cols] s_df.loc[mask] df.loc[mask, cols] Boolean mask of rows, some columns Some rows (all columns in a DataFrame) All rows, some columns Subset of rows and columns Boolean mask of rows (all columns) rows and cols can be values, lists, Series or masks. Value Series, first 2 rows Series DataFrame ................
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