Category "contains"

Search for "does-not-contain" on a DataFrame in pandas

I've done some searching and can't figure out how to filter a dataframe by df["col"].str.contains(word) however I'm wondering if there is a way to do the rever

How do I escape parenthesis within a CONTAINS using T-SQL?

I want to have the following query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM MyTable WHERE CONTAINS (MyField, '(429)') The problem, is that the parenthesis are ignored and it is

Does Python have a string 'contains' substring method?

I'm looking for a string.contains or string.indexof method in Python. I want to do: if not somestring.contains("blah"): continue