how to delete columns in python dataframe code example
Example 1: python code to drop columns from dataframe
# Let df be a dataframe
# Let new_df be a dataframe after dropping a column
new_df = df.drop(labels='column_name', axis=1)
# Or if you don't want to change the name of the dataframe
df = df.drop(labels='column_name', axis=1)
# Or to remove several columns
df = df.drop(['list_of_column_names'], axis=1)
# axis=0 for 'rows' and axis=1 for columns
Example 2: drop a column from dataframe
#To delete the column without having to reassign df
df.drop('column_name', axis=1, inplace=True)