Pandas - remove the label of the column index

Question

I have a dataframe as follows:

PLEASE_REMOVE  2013  2014  2015
 THIS_IS_EASY
-------------------------------
          Bob     0     3     4
         Mary     2          


        

Answer 1

New answer for pandas 1.x, submitted by Ian Logie

df.columns.name = None

 

Old Answer from Oct 2018

Simply delete the name of the columns:

del df.columns.name

Also, note that df.index.names = [''] is not quite the same as del df.index.name.