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rename columns pandas

df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1',
                   'oldName2': 'newName2'},
          inplace=True, errors='raise')
# Make sure you set inplace to True if you want the change
# to be applied to the dataframe
Posted by: Guest on March-13-2020
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pandas dataframe rename column

df = df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1', 'oldName2': 'newName2'})
# Or rename the existing DataFrame (rather than creating a copy) 
df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1', 'oldName2': 'newName2'}, inplace=True)
Posted by: Guest on September-28-2020
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how to give name to column in pandas

>gapminder.rename(columns={'pop':'population',
                          'lifeExp':'life_exp',
                          'gdpPercap':'gdp_per_cap'}, 
                 inplace=True)
 
>print(gapminder.columns)
 
Index([u'country', u'year', u'population', u'continent', u'life_exp',
       u'gdp_per_cap'],
      dtype='object')
 
>gapminder.head(3)
 
       country  year  population continent  life_exp  gdp_per_cap
0  Afghanistan  1952     8425333      Asia    28.801   779.445314
1  Afghanistan  1957     9240934      Asia    30.332   820.853030
2  Afghanistan  1962    10267083      Asia    31.997   853.100710
Posted by: Guest on May-29-2020

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