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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
Posted by: Guest on April-25-2020
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Python pandas how to drop a column

df = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(12).reshape(3, 4), columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
>>> df
   A  B   C   D
0  0  1   2   3
1  4  5   6   7
2  8  9  10  11

cols=['B', 'C']
>>> df.drop(columns = cols)  # or # df.drop(columns = ['B', 'C'])
   A   D
0  0   3
1  4   7
2  8  11
Posted by: Guest on July-22-2021

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