Answers for "pandas drop columns by name list"

delete column pandas dataframe

df.drop(['column_1', 'Column_2'], axis = 1, inplace = True)

delete columns pandas

df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index 
df.drop(['column_nameA', 'column_nameB'], axis=1, inplace=True)

remove columns that start with pandas

cols = [c for c in df.columns if c.lower()[:6] != 'string']
df=df[cols]