Answers for "how to delete a column in python dataframe"

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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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dataframe delete row

df.drop(df.index[2])
Posted by: Guest on May-26-2020
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drop a column from dataframe

#to drop by column number instead of by column label, try this to delete, e.g. the 1st, 2nd and 4th columns
df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index
Posted by: Guest on August-25-2020

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