set column name as read pandas code example
Example 1: change name of column pandas
df = df.rename(columns={"old_col1": "new_col1", "old_col2": "new_col2"})
Example 2: how to give name to column in pandas
>gapminder.rename(columns={'pop':'population',
'lifeExp':'life_exp',
'gdpPercap':'gdp_per_cap'},
inplace=True)
>print(gapminder.columns)
Index([u'country', u'year', u'population', u'continent', u'life_exp',
u'gdp_per_cap'],
dtype='object')
>gapminder.head(3)
country year population continent life_exp gdp_per_cap
0 Afghanistan 1952 8425333 Asia 28.801 779.445314
1 Afghanistan 1957 9240934 Asia 30.332 820.853030
2 Afghanistan 1962 10267083 Asia 31.997 853.100710