In [27]: df Out[27]: A B C 0 -0.166919 0.979728 -0.632955 1 -0.297953 -0.912674 -1.365463 2 -0.120211 -0.540679 -0.680481 In [28]: df.columns Out[28]: Index (['A', 'B', 'C'], dtype='object')