[FIXED] filter dataframe checking if values in a column are certain object

Issue

I have a question. I have a GeoDataFrame object from geopandas with a column named "geometry" and polygons and multipolygons from shapely.geometry. I want to filter the dataframe and only leaving out the multipolygons (knowing that multipolygons are object).

I tried:

gdf = gdf[gdf["geometry"] == shapely.geometry.multipolygon.MultiPolygon]

I guess it could be something along the lines of "validate" if every value in the geometry column, is instance of this shapely.geometry.multipolygon.MultiPolygon object.

How could I filter out this Geo/DataFrame?

Solution

a combination of loc[] and isinstance() will filter to just polygons. Full working example below.

import geopandas as gpd
import shapely

world = gpd.read_file(gpd.datasets.get_path("naturalearth_lowres"))

world.loc[world["geometry"].apply(lambda g: isinstance(g, shapely.geometry.Polygon))]

Answered By - Rob Raymond