Delete a column from a Pandas DataFrame

As you’ve guessed, the right syntax is

del df['column_name']

It’s difficult to make del df.column_name work simply as the result of syntactic limitations in Python. del df[name] gets translated to df.__delitem__(name) under the covers by Python.

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