pd drop column by index code example

Example 1: how to drop the index column in pandas

df.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)

Example 2: pandas drop columns by index

cols = [1,2,4,5,12]
df.drop(df.columns[cols],axis=1,inplace=True)

Example 3: drop a column from dataframe

df = df.drop('column_name', 1)

Example 4: drop the first column pandas

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