Extracting specific selected columns to new DataFrame as a copy

Question

I have a pandas DataFrame with 4 columns and I want to create a new DataFrame that only has three of the columns. This question is similar

Answer 1

Another simpler way seems to be:

new = pd.DataFrame([old.A, old.B, old.C]).transpose()

where old.column_name will give you a series. Make a list of all the column-series you want to retain and pass it to the DataFrame constructor. We need to do a transpose to adjust the shape.

In [14]:pd.DataFrame([old.A, old.B, old.C]).transpose()
Out[14]: 
   A   B    C
0  4  10  100
1  5  20   50