select certain columns from dataframe code example

Example 1: python: select specific columns in a data frame

df = df[["Column_Name1", "Column_Name2"]]

Example 2: select specific column names from dataframe

import pandas
data = pandas.DataFrame({'A' : ['X', 'Y'], 
                        'B' : 1, 
                        'C' : [2, 3]})
print data[['A', 'B']]

# Output   A  B
# 0  X  1
# 1  Y  1

Example 3: how to get only certain columns in pandas

#only the column names specified will be put into the new sub df
#enter a minimum of one column name
print(df[['column_name_1', 'column_name_2', ... , 'column_name_n']])