Question

How to delete multiple columns by names from pandas DataFrame in Python

Answer 1

import pandas as pd
  
df = pd.DataFrame(
    [['Tom', 91, 80, 94],
     ['Emmy', 98, 95, 96],
     ['Rubeus', 87, 81, 87],
     ['Dumbledore', 99, 100, 98],
     ['Axel', 75, 85, 90]],
    columns=['name', 'algebra', 'python', 'java'])
  
df = df.drop(['algebra', 'java'], axis=1)

print(df)

   
   
   
'''
run:
   
          name  python
0         Tom      80
1        Emmy      95
2      Rubeus      81
3  Dumbledore     100
4        Axel      85

'''

 

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