PYTHON

python return column names of pandas dataframe

# Basic syntax:
your_dataframe.columns

# Note, if you want the column names as a list, just do:
list(your_dataframe.columns)

pd dataframe get column names

lst = data.columns.values     # data is dataframe

python pandas return column name of a specific column

# Basic syntax:
list(df.columns)[column_number]
# This returns the column name of the column of interest

select specific column names from dataframe

import pandas
data = pandas.DataFrame({'A' : ['X', 'Y'], 
                        'B' : 1, 
                        'C' : [2, 3]})
print data[['A', 'B']]

# Output   A  B
# 0  X  1
# 1  Y  1

python select columns names from dataframe

# Import pandas package  
import pandas as pd  
    
# making data frame  
data = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")  
  
# iterating the columns 
for col in data.columns: 
    print(col)