drop columns of data frame 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: drop a column from dataframe

#to drop by column number instead of by column label, try this to delete, e.g. the 1st, 2nd and 4th columns
df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index