In [28]:
filter_col = [col for col in df if col.startswith('foo')]
filter_col
Out[28]:
['foo.aa', 'foo.bars', 'foo.fighters', 'foo.fox', 'foo.manchu']
In [29]:
df[filter_col]
Out[29]:
foo.aa foo.bars foo.fighters foo.fox foo.manchu
0 1.0 0 0 2 NA
1 2.1 0 1 4 0
2 NaN 0 NaN 1 0
3 4.7 0 0 0 0
4 5.6 0 0 0 0
5 6.8 1 0 5 0