delete whole dataframe in python permanently 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: python pandas drop

df = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(12).reshape(3, 4),
...                   columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
>>> df
   A  B   C   D
0  0  1   2   3
1  4  5   6   7
2  8  9  10  11

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