pandas how to automatically drop column from datafram by name code example
Example 1: 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 2: how to drop a column by name in pandas
>>> df.drop(['B', 'C'], axis=1)
A D
0 0 3
1 4 7
2 8 11