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Shy Skunk answered on May 20, 2020 Popularity 7/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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import pandas as pd

# create a sample dataframe
data = {
    'A': ['a1', 'a2', 'a3'],
    'B': ['b1', 'b2', 'b3'],
    'C': ['c1', 'c2', 'c3'],
    'D': ['d1', 'd2', 'd3']
}

df = pd.DataFrame(data)

# print the dataframe
print("Original Dataframe:\n")
print(df)

# remove column C
df = df.drop('C', axis=1)

print("\nAfter dropping C:\n")
print(df)

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#To delete the column without having to reassign df
df.drop('column_name', axis=1, inplace=True)

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df.drop('column_name', axis=1, inplace=True)

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>>> df.drop(columns=['B', 'C'])
   A   D
0  0   3
1  4   7
2  8  11

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df = df.drop('column_name', 1)

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# axis=1 tells Python that we want to apply function on columns instead of rows
# To delete the column permanently from original dataframe df, we can use the option inplace=True
df.drop(['A', 'B', 'C'], axis=1, inplace=True)

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df.drop(columns=['Column_Name1','Column_Name2'], axis=1, inplace=True)

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del df['column_name']

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del df['column_name']

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#working with "text" syntax for the columns:
df.drop(['column_nameA', 'column_nameB'], axis=1, inplace=True)

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

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