drop pandas columns code example

Example 1: drop a column pandas

df.drop(['column_1', 'Column_2'], axis = 1, inplace = True)

Example 2: 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 3: drop a column in pandas

note: df is your dataframe

df = df.drop('coloum_name',axis=1)

Example 4: df.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

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

OR

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

Example 5: df drop column

df = df.drop(['B', 'C'], axis=1)

Example 6: remove a column from dataframe

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