How to delete a column from a data frame with pandas?

Question

I read my data

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv(\'/path/file.tsv\', header=0, delimiter=\'\\t\')
print df

and get:

Answer 1

df.drop(colname, axis=1) (or del df[colname]) is the correct method to use to delete a column.

If a ValueError is raised, it means the column name is not exactly what you think it is.

Check df.columns to see what Pandas thinks are the names of the columns.