Pandas - delete column name

Question

I want to delete to just column name (x,y,z) use only data

In [68]: df
Out[68]: 
   x  y  z
0  1  0  1  
1  2  0  0 
2  2  1  1 
3  2  0  1 
4  2  1  0


        

Answer 1

If all you need is to print out without the headers then you can use the to_string() and set header=False, e.g.:

>>> print(df.to_string(header=False))
0  1  0  1
1  2  0  0
2  2  1  1
3  2  0  1
4  2  1  0

Answer 2

If you need to remove the header alone, uses '.values'.

df = df[:].values

But the above code will return a numpy array instead of dataframe. Converting the same again into dataframe will add default values to column names (0,1..).

Answer 3

In pandas by default need column names.

But if really want 'remove' columns what is strongly not recommended, because get duplicated column names is possible assign empty strings:

df.columns = [''] * len(df.columns)

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But if need write df to file without columns and index add parameter header=False and index=False to to_csv or to_excel.

df.to_csv('file.csv', header=False, index=False)

df.to_excel('file.xlsx', header=False, index=False)