Renaming columns in pandas

Question

I have a DataFrame using pandas and column labels that I need to edit to replace the original column labels.

I\'d like to change the column names in a DataFrame

Answer 1

Let's Understand renaming by a small example...

1.Renaming columns using mapping:

df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 2, 3], "B": [4, 5, 6]}) #creating a df with column name A and B
df.rename({"A": "new_a", "B": "new_b"},axis='columns',inplace =True) #renaming column A with 'new_a' and B with 'new_b'

output:
   new_a  new_b
0  1       4
1  2       5
2  3       6

2.Renaming index/Row_Name using mapping:

df.rename({0: "x", 1: "y", 2: "z"},axis='index',inplace =True) #Row name are getting replaced by 'x','y','z'.

output:
       new_a  new_b
    x  1       4
    y  2       5
    z  3       6