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pug_nacious_pug answered on June 29, 2020 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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>>> midx = pd.MultiIndex(levels=[['lama', 'cow', 'falcon'],
...                              ['speed', 'weight', 'length']],
...                      codes=[[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2],
...                             [0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2]])
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(index=midx, columns=['big', 'small'],
...                   data=[[45, 30], [200, 100], [1.5, 1], [30, 20],
...                         [250, 150], [1.5, 0.8], [320, 250],
...                         [1, 0.8], [0.3, 0.2]])
>>> df
                big     small
lama    speed   45.0    30.0
        weight  200.0   100.0
        length  1.5     1.0
cow     speed   30.0    20.0
        weight  250.0   150.0
        length  1.5     0.8
falcon  speed   320.0   250.0
        weight  1.0     0.8
        length  0.3     0.2

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

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drop a column from dataframe

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

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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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drop a column from dataframe

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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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del df['column_name']

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

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del df["column"]

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del df['column_name'] #to remove a column from dataframe

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