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change name of column pandas

#df.rename() will only return a new df with the new headers
#df = df.rename() will change the heders of the current dataframe 
df = df.rename(columns={"old_col1": "new_col1", "old_col2": "new_col2"})

pandas dataframe column names

print(data.columns.values)

name columns pandas

df.columns = ['column1', 'column2', 'column3']
df.columns

changing names of column pandas

import pandas as pd

# You don't need these two lines
# as you already have your DataFrame in memory
df = pd.read_csv("nor.txt", sep="|")
df.drop(df.columns[-1], axis=1)

# Get column names
cols = df.columns

# Create a new DataFrame with just the markdown
# strings
df2 = pd.DataFrame([['---',]*len(cols)], columns=cols)

#Create a new concatenated DataFrame
df3 = pd.concat([df2, df])

#Save as markdown
df3.to_csv("nor.md", sep="|", index=False)

name columns pandas

>gapminder.columns = ['country','year','population',
                     'continent','life_exp','gdp_per_cap']