del dataframe pandas code example

Example 1: python - drop a column

# axis=1 tells Python that we want to apply function on columns instead of rows
# To delete the column permanently from original dataframe df, we can use the option inplace=True
df.drop(['A', 'B', 'C'], axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 2: pandas drop column in dataframe

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