delete a column in python dataframe code example

Example 1: drop a column pandas

df.drop(['column_1', 'Column_2'], axis = 1, inplace = True)

Example 2: drop a column in pandas

note: df is your dataframe

df = df.drop('coloum_name',axis=1)

Example 3: how to drop a column by name in pandas

>>> df.drop(['B', 'C'], axis=1)
   A   D
0  0   3
1  4   7
2  8  11

Example 4: remove columns from a dataframe python

df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index

Example 5: dataframe delete row

df.drop(df.index[2])