pandas series get column name code example

Example 1: python return column names of pandas dataframe

# Basic syntax:
your_dataframe.columns

# Note, if you want the column names as a list, just do:
list(your_dataframe.columns)

Example 2: pd dataframe get column names

lst = data.columns.values     # data is dataframe

Example 3: python pandas return column name of a specific column

# Basic syntax:
list(df.columns)[column_number]
# This returns the column name of the column of interest