how to delete a column from dataframe in python code example

Example 1: drop a column pandas

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

Example 2: 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 3: remove column from dataframe

df.drop('column_name', axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 4: drop a column in pandas

note: df is your dataframe

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

Example 5: 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 6: drop columnd python

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

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