Renaming columns in pandas

Question

I have a DataFrame using pandas and column labels that I need to edit to replace the original column labels.

I\'d like to change the column names in a DataFrame

Answer 1

In addition to the solution already provided, you can replace all the columns while you are reading the file. We can use names and header=0 to do that.

First, we create a list of the names that we like to use as our column names:

import pandas as pd

ufo_cols = ['city', 'color reported', 'shape reported', 'state', 'time']
ufo.columns = ufo_cols

ufo = pd.read_csv('link to the file you are using', names = ufo_cols, header = 0)

In this case, all the column names will be replaced with the names you have in your list.