dropping a row in pandas code example

Example 1: drop a column from dataframe

#To delete the column without having to reassign df
df.drop('column_name', axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 2: delete a row in pandas dataframe

df.drop(df.index[2])

Example 3: delete columns pandas

df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index 
df.drop(['column_nameA', 'column_nameB'], axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 4: pandas how to delete a row

>>> df
   A  B   C   D
0  0  1   2   3
1  4  5   6   7
2  8  9  10  11

Drop a row by index

    df.drop([0, 1])
       A  B   C   D
    2  8  9  10  11

Drop columns

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