how to drop a particular column in python code example

Example 1: drop variable pandas

# pandas drop a column with drop function
gapminder_ocean.drop(['pop'], axis=1)

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