change column name in pandas df code example

Example 1: change name of column pandas

#df.rename() will only return a new df with the new headers
#df = df.rename() will change the heders of the current dataframe 
df = df.rename(columns={"old_col1": "new_col1", "old_col2": "new_col2"})

Example 2: rename column pandas

>>> df.rename(columns={"A": "a", "B": "b", "C": "c"}, errors="raise")
Traceback (most recent call last):
KeyError: ['C'] not found in axis

Example 3: rename column pandas

>>> df.rename(str.lower, axis='columns')
   a  b
0  1  4
1  2  5
2  3  6