Answers for "how to get the column names of a dataframe in python"

python return column names of pandas dataframe

# Basic syntax:
your_dataframe.columns

# Note, if you want the column names as a list, just do:
list(your_dataframe.columns)

pd dataframe get column names

lst = data.columns.values     # data is dataframe

name columns pandas

>gapminder.columns = ['country','year','population',
                     'continent','life_exp','gdp_per_cap']