how to delete a column in pandas dataframe

1df.drop(['column_1', 'Column_2'], axis = 1, inplace = True) 

1del df['column_name']

1>>>df = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(12).reshape(3, 4), 
2                     columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
3>>>df
4   A  B   C   D
50  0  1   2   3
61  4  5   6   7
72  8  9  10  11
8
9>>> df.drop(['B', 'C'], axis=1)
10   A   D
110  0   3
121  4   7
132  8  11
14
15OR
16
17>>> df.drop(columns=['B', 'C'])
18   A   D
190  0   3
201  4   7
212  8  11

1del df['column']

1df = df.drop(df.columns[[0, 1, 3]], axis=1)  # df.columns is zero-based pd.Index 
2

1delete column from pandas data frame