remove column pandas dataframe code example

Example 1: drop a column pandas

df.drop(['column_1', 'Column_2'], axis = 1, inplace = True)

Example 2: drop a column from dataframe

#To delete the column without having to reassign df
df.drop('column_name', axis=1, inplace=True)

Example 3: delete row from dataframe python

df.drop(df.index[-2])
df.drop(df.index[[3, 4]])
df.drop(['row_1', 'row_2'])
df.drop('column_1', axis=1)
df[df.name != 'cell']

Example 4: 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

Example 5: remove columns from dataframe

df.drop('col_name',1) #1 drop column / 0 drop row

Example 6: remove a column from dataframe

del df['column_name'] #to remove a column from dataframe