pandas drop first first columns code example

Example 1: remove 1st column pandas

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

Example 2: how to drop a column by name in pandas

>>> df.drop(columns=['B', 'C'])
   A   D
0  0   3
1  4   7
2  8  11

Example 3: drop the first column pandas

df.set_index['column'] # column refers to column to be set as index