pandas dataframe column name: remove special character

Question

Some joker made a Lotus database/applet thingy for tracking engineering issues in our company. The joke is that the key piece of information was named with a special charac

Answer 1

use str.replace:
df.columns=df.columns.str.replace('#','')

You can check this in the documentation.

Answer 2

Instead we can use lamda functions for removing special characters in the column

df2=df1.rename(columns=lambda x:x.strip('*'))