pandas drop column based on index code example

Example 1: how to drop the index column in pandas

df.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)

Example 2: pandas drop columns by index

cols = [1,2,4,5,12]
df.drop(df.columns[cols],axis=1,inplace=True)

Example 3: remove columns from dataframe

df.drop('col_name',1) #1 drop column / 0 drop row