renaming column headings python pandas code example

Example 1: renaming headers pandasd

df = df.rename(columns={"old_col1": "new_col1", "old_col2": "new_col2"})

Example 2: renaming column in dataframe pandas

df.rename({'a': 'X', 'b': 'Y'}, axis=1, inplace=True)
df

   X  Y  c  d  e
0  x  x  x  x  x
1  x  x  x  x  x
2  x  x  x  x  x