how to delete a particular column in pandas code example
Example 1: python code to drop columns from dataframe
# Let df be a dataframe
# Let new_df be a dataframe after dropping a column
new_df = df.drop(labels='column_name', axis=1)
# Or if you don't want to change the name of the dataframe
df = df.drop(labels='column_name', axis=1)
# Or to remove several columns
df = df.drop(['list_of_column_names'], axis=1)
# axis=0 for 'rows' and axis=1 for columns
Example 2: python - drop a column
# axis=1 tells Python that we want to apply function on columns instead of rows
# To delete the column permanently from original dataframe df, we can use the option inplace=True
df.drop(['A', 'B', 'C'], axis=1, inplace=True)
Example 3: pandas dataframe delete column
del df['column_name']