Deleting Columns

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3.12. Deleting Columns#

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df=pd.DataFrame({
'Name':['Sahil','Sonia','Sourav','Vishal'],
'Age':[10,20,30,40],
'Gender':['M','F','M','M'],
'City':['J','K','L','P'],
'Work':[True,False,False,True]
}
)
df

	Name	Age	Gender	City	Work
0	Sahil	10	M	J	True
1	Sonia	20	F	K	False
2	Sourav	30	M	L	False
3	Vishal	40	M	P	True

3.12.1. .drop() is used to delete cols#

3.12.2. Removing one column#

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

df

	Name	Age	Gender	City
0	Sahil	10	M	J
1	Sonia	20	F	K
2	Sourav	30	M	L
3	Vishal	40	M	P

3.12.3. Removing multiple columns#

cols=['Age','City']
df.drop(cols,axis=1,inplace=True)

df

	Name	Gender
0	Sahil	M
1	Sonia	F
2	Sourav	M
3	Vishal	M