from sklearn.feature_selection import VarianceThreshold
sel = VarianceThreshold(threshold=(0.95 * (1 - 0.95)))
sel_=sel.fit_transform(features)
You can change the direction using the direction parameter
direction{'forward', 'backward'}, default='forward'
>>> from sklearn.feature_selection import SequentialFeatureSelector
>>> from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
>>> from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
>>> X, y = load_iris(return_X_y=True)
>>> knn = KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=3)
>>> sfs = SequentialFeatureSelector(knn, n_features_to_select=3)
>>> sfs.fit(X, y)
SequentialFeatureSelector(estimator=KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=3),
n_features_to_select=3)
>>> sfs.get_support()
array([ True, False, True, True])
>>> sfs.transform(X).shape
(150, 3)