change the order of dataframe columns code example

Example 1: how to change the column order in pandas dataframe

df = df.reindex(columns=column_names)

Example 2: pandas reorder columns

# Get column list in ['item1','item2','item3'] format 
df.columns
# [0]output: 
Index(['item1','item2','item3'], dtype='object')

# Copy just the list protion of the output and rearrange the columns 
cols = ['item3','item1','item2']

# Resave dataframe using new column order
df = df[cols]