pandas drop col code example

Example 1: drop a column pandas

df.drop(['column_1', 'Column_2'], axis = 1, inplace = True)

Example 2: 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 3: remove columns from dataframe

df.drop('col_name',1) #1 drop column / 0 drop row

Example 4: dataframe delete row

df.drop(df.index[2])

Example 5: drop a column in pandas

df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index

Example 6: drop variable pandas

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