Drop Rows or Columns from a pandas DataFrame

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Drop Rows¶

import pandas as pd

data = {
    "name": ["Jason", "Molly", "Tina", "Jake", "Amy"],
    "year": [2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014],
    "reports": [4, 24, 31, 2, 3],
}
df = pd.DataFrame(data, index=["Cochice", "Pima", "Santa Cruz", "Maricopa", "Yuma"])
df

df.drop(["Cochice", "Pima"])

Drop Columns¶

import pandas as pd

data = {
    "name": ["Jason", "Molly", "Tina", "Jake", "Amy"],
    "year": [2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014],
    "reports": [4, 24, 31, 2, 3],
}
df = pd.DataFrame(data, index=["Cochice", "Pima", "Santa Cruz", "Maricopa", "Yuma"])
df

df.drop("reports", axis=1, inplace=False)

df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1]], axis=1)