how to name columns dataframe code example
Example 1: create dataframe with column names pandas
In [4]: import pandas as pd
In [5]: df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A','B','C','D','E','F','G'])
In [6]: df
Out[6]:
Empty DataFrame
Columns: [A, B, C, D, E, F, G]
Index: []
Example 2: how to give name to column in pandas
>gapminder.rename(columns={'pop':'population',
'lifeExp':'life_exp',
'gdpPercap':'gdp_per_cap'},
inplace=True)
>print(gapminder.columns)
Index([u'country', u'year', u'population', u'continent', u'life_exp',
u'gdp_per_cap'],
dtype='object')
>gapminder.head(3)
country year population continent life_exp gdp_per_cap
0 Afghanistan 1952 8425333 Asia 28.801 779.445314
1 Afghanistan 1957 9240934 Asia 30.332 820.853030
2 Afghanistan 1962 10267083 Asia 31.997 853.100710