From cadfcc2025708093ddf0ab7493f8ce7b3da3ef50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yumibyte <ashraigosa@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:08:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Filter by keyword

The function will take the dataframe from list_to_df and filter through it with a given keyword. This is important for filtering long lists with common groupings for the user.
---
 geo-app-api/app.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/geo-app-api/app.py b/geo-app-api/app.py
index 35a0b6a..67c86be 100644
--- a/geo-app-api/app.py
+++ b/geo-app-api/app.py
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ def list_to_df(values):
     # print header
     return df
 
+def filter_value(df):
+
+    val = input('keyword: ') #this keyword will only be searched under the specified column!
+
+    filtered = (df[df.column_name==val]) #column_name needs to be stated
+    return filtered
 
 # TODO move this to a module
 # TODO write some test cases for this