pandas rename elements in column code example

Example 1: pandas rename column

df.rename(columns={"old_col1": "new_col1", "old_col2": "new_col2"}, inplace=True)

Example 2: pandas dataframe rename column

df = df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1', 'oldName2': 'newName2'})
# Or rename the existing DataFrame (rather than creating a copy) 
df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1', 'oldName2': 'newName2'}, inplace=True)