deleting columns from dataframe 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: remove a column from dataframe

del df['column_name'] #to remove a column from dataframe