removing the name of a pandas dataframe index after appending a total row to a dataframe

Question

I have calculated a series of totals tips by day of a week and appended it to the bottom of totalspt dataframe.

I have set the index.name f

Answer 1

That's the columns' name.

In [11]: df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2]], columns=['A', 'B'])

In [12]: df
Out[12]:
   A  B
0  1  2

In [13]: df.columns.name = 'XX'

In [14]: df
Out[14]:
XX  A  B
0   1  2

You can set it to None to clear it.

In [15]: df.columns.name = None

In [16]: df
Out[16]:
   A  B
0  1  2

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An alternative, if you wanted to keep it, is to give the index a name:

In [21]: df.columns.name = "XX"

In [22]: df.index.name = "index"

In [23]: df
Out[23]:
XX     A  B
index
0      1  2

Answer 2

You can use rename_axis. Since 0.17.0

In [3939]: df
Out[3939]:
XX  A  B
0   1  2

In [3940]: df.rename_axis(None, axis=1)
Out[3940]:
   A  B
0  1  2

In [3942]: df = df.rename_axis(None, axis=1)

In [3943]: df
Out[3943]:
   A  B
0  1  2