pandas dataframe drop index code example

Example 1: how to drop the index column in pandas

df.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)

Example 2: delete index in df

>>> df.reset_index(drop=True)
    class  max_speed
0    bird      389.0
1    bird       24.0
2  mammal       80.5
3  mammal        NaN

Example 3: pandas drop columns by index

cols = [1,2,4,5,12]
df.drop(df.columns[cols],axis=1,inplace=True)

Example 4: how to drop the index column in pandas

df.reset_index(drop=True)

Example 5: dataframe delete row

df.drop(df.index[2])

Example 6: drop variable pandas

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