python pandas remove duplicate rows code example

Example 1: drop duplicates pandas first column

import pandas as pd 
  
# making data frame from csv file 
data = pd.read_csv("employees.csv") 
  
# sorting by first name 
data.sort_values("First Name", inplace = True) 
  
# dropping ALL duplicte values 
data.drop_duplicates(subset ="First Name",keep = False, inplace = True) 
  
# displaying data 
print(data)

Example 2: remove duplicate row in df

df = df.drop_duplicates()

Example 3: pandas remove repeated index

idx = pd.Index(['lama', 'cow', 'lama', 'beetle', 'lama', 'hippo'])
idx.drop_duplicates(keep='first')
Index(['lama', 'cow', 'beetle', 'hippo'], dtype='object')
idx.drop_duplicates(keep='last')
Index(['cow', 'beetle','lamb', 'hippo'], dtype='object')
idx.drop_duplicates(keep='False')
Index(['cow', 'beetle','hippo'], dtype='object')