drop a column from dataframe code example

Example 1: drop a column pandas

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

Example 2: drop a column from dataframe

#To delete the column without having to reassign df
df.drop('column_name', axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 3: drop a column from dataframe

#working with "text" syntax for the columns:
df.drop(['column_nameA', 'column_nameB'], axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 4: drop a column from dataframe

df = df.drop('column_name', 1)

Example 5: how to drop a column by name in pandas

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

Example 6: drop a column from dataframe

#to drop by column number instead of by column label, try this to delete, e.g. the 1st, 2nd and 4th columns
df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index