pandas - Python: Removing Rows on Count condition

Question

I have a problem filtering a pandas dataframe.

city 
NYC 
NYC 
NYC 
NYC 
SYD 
SYD 
SEL 
SEL
...

df.city.value_counts()

I would like to remove rows of cities that has less than 4 count frequency, which would be SYD and SEL for instance.

What would be the way to do so without manually dropping them city by city?

Answer 1

Here you go with filter

df.groupby('city').filter(lambda x : len(x)>3)
Out[1743]: 
  city
0  NYC
1  NYC
2  NYC
3  NYC

Solution two transform

sub_df = df[df.groupby('city').city.transform('count')>3].copy() 
# add copy for future warning when you need to modify the sub df