dropping columns by index in pandas code example

Example 1: how to drop the index column in pandas

df.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)

Example 2: how to drop the index column in pandas

df.reset_index(drop=True)

Example 3: delete columns pandas

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

Example 4: remove a column from dataframe

del df['column_name'] #to remove a column from dataframe