drop column pandas code example

Example 1: drop a column pandas

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

Example 2: drop multiple columns pandas

yourdf.drop(['columnheading1', 'columnheading2'], axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 3: drop a column from dataframe

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

Example 4: python code to drop columns from dataframe

# Let df be a dataframe
# Let new_df be a dataframe after dropping a column

new_df = df.drop(labels='column_name', axis=1)

# Or if you don't want to change the name of the dataframe
df = df.drop(labels='column_name', axis=1)

# Or to remove several columns
df = df.drop(['list_of_column_names'], axis=1)

# axis=0 for 'rows' and axis=1 for columns

Example 5: drop columns pandas

df.drop(columns=['B', 'C'])

Example 6: drop column pandas

df.drop(['column_1', 'Column_2'], axis = 1, inplace = True) 
# Remove all columns between column index 1 to 3
df.drop(df.iloc[:, 1:3], inplace = True, axis = 1)