del a coloumn pandas 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 dataframe columns

# Drop The Original Categorical Columns which had Whitespace Issues in their values
df.drop(cat_columns, axis = 1, inplace = True)

dict_1 = {'workclass_stripped':'workclass', 'education_stripped':'education', 
         'marital-status_stripped':'marital_status', 'occupation_stripped':'occupation',
         'relationship_stripped':'relationship', 'race_stripped':'race',
         'sex_stripped':'sex', 'native-country_stripped':'native-country',
         'Income_stripped':'Income'}

df.rename(columns = dict_1, inplace = True)
df