Creating new dataframe by search result in df - pandas

Question

I am reading a txt file for search variable.
I am using this variable to find it in a dataframe.
for lines in lines_list:
sn = lines
if sn in df[df['SERIAL'].str.contains(sn)]:
condition = df[df['SERIAL'].str.contains(sn)]
df_new = pd.DataFrame(condition)
df_new.to_csv('try.csv',mode='a', sep=',', index=False)
When I check the try.csv file, it has much more lines the txt file has.
The df has a lots of lines, more than the txt file.
I want save the whole line from search result into a dataframe or file
I tried to append the search result to a new dataframe or csv.

Answer 1

first create line list
f = open("text.txt", "r")
l = list(map(lambda x: x.strip(), f.readlines()))
write this apply func has comparing values and filtering
def apply_func(x):
if str(x) in l:
return x
return np.nan
and get output
df["Serial"] = df["Serial"].apply(apply_func)
df.dropna(inplace=True)
df.to_csv("new_df.csv", mode="a", index=False)
or try filter method
f = open("text.txt", "r")
l = list(map(lambda x: x.strip(), f.readlines()))
df = df.set_index("Serial").filter(items=l, axis=0).reset_index()
df.to_csv("new_df.csv", mode="a", index=False)