pandas dataframe renam column code example

Example 1: rename columns pandas

df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1',
                   'oldName2': 'newName2'},
          inplace=True, errors='raise')
# Make sure you set inplace to True if you want the change
# to be applied to the dataframe

Example 2: rename column pandas

>>> df.rename({1: 2, 2: 4}, axis='index')
   A  B
0  1  4
2  2  5
4  3  6