Delete column from pandas DataFrame

Question

When deleting a column in a DataFrame I use:

del df[\'column_name\']

And this works great. Why can\'t I use the following?

Answer 1

We can Remove or Delete a specified column or sprcified columns by drop() method.

Suppose df is a dataframe.

Column to be removed = column0

Code:

df = df.drop(column0, axis=1)

To remove multiple columns col1, col2, . . . , coln, we have to insert all the columns that needed to be removed in a list. Then remove them by drop() method.

Code:

df = df.drop([col1, col2, . . . , coln], axis=1)

I hope it would be helpful.