rename row name pandas code example

Example 1: change name of column pandas

#df.rename() will only return a new df with the new headers
#df = df.rename() will change the heders of the current dataframe 
df = df.rename(columns={"old_col1": "new_col1", "old_col2": "new_col2"})

Example 2: rename column pandas

>>> df.index
RangeIndex(start=0, stop=3, step=1)
>>> df.rename(index=str).index
Index(['0', '1', '2'], dtype='object')