data.table drop columns code example
Example 1: 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 2: drop columns
>>> df.drop(index='cow', columns='small')
big
lama speed 45.0
weight 200.0
length 1.5
falcon speed 320.0
weight 1.0
length 0.3