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Drop Empty Columns in Pandas

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In this article, we will try to see different ways of removing the Empty column, Null column, and zeros value column. First, We will create a sample data frame and then we will perform our operations in subsequent examples by the end you will get a strong hand knowledge on how to handle this situation with pandas.

Approach:

  • Import required python library.
  • Create a sample Data Frame.
  • Use the Pandas dropna() method, It allows the user to analyze and drop Rows/Columns with Null values in different ways.
  • Display updated Data Frame.

Syntax: DataFrameName.dropna(axis=0, how=’any’, inplace=False)

Parameters:

  • axis: axis takes int or string value for rows/columns. Input can be 0 or 1 for Integer and ‘index’ or ‘columns’ for String.
  • how: how takes string value of two kinds only (‘any’ or ‘all’). ‘any’ drops the row/column if ANY value is Null and ‘all’ drops only if ALL values are null.
  • inplace: It is a boolean which makes the changes in the data frame itself if True.

Sample Data:

This is the sample data frame on which we will perform different operations.

Python3




# import required libraries
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
  
# create a Dataframe
Mydataframe = pd.DataFrame({'FirstName': ['Vipul', 'Ashish', 'Milan'],
                            "Gender": ["", "", ""],
                            "Age": [0, 0, 0]})
Mydataframe['Department'] = np.nan
  
# show the dataframe
print(Mydataframe)


Output:

Example 1:

Remove all null value column.

Python3




# import required libraries
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
  
# create a Dataframe
Mydataframe = pd.DataFrame({'FirstName': ['Vipul', 'Ashish', 'Milan'],
                            "Gender": ["", "", ""],
                            "Age": [0, 0, 0]})
  
Mydataframe['Department'] = np.nan
  
display(Mydataframe)
  
Mydataframe.dropna(how='all', axis=1, inplace=True)
  
# show the dataframe
display(Mydataframe)


Output:

Example 2:

Replace all Empty places with null and then Remove all null values column with dropna function.

Python3




# import required libraries
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
  
# create a Dataframe
Mydataframe = pd.DataFrame({'FirstName': ['Vipul', 'Ashish', 'Milan'],
                            "Gender": ["", "", ""],
                            "Age": [0, 0, 0]})
  
Mydataframe['Department'] = np.nan
display(Mydataframe)
  
nan_value = float("NaN")
Mydataframe.replace("", nan_value, inplace=True)
  
Mydataframe.dropna(how='all', axis=1, inplace=True)
  
# show the dataframe
display(Mydataframe)


Output:

Example 3:

Replace all zeros places with null and then Remove all null values column with dropna function.

Python3




# import required libraries
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
  
# create a Dataframe
Mydataframe = pd.DataFrame({'FirstName': ['Vipul', 'Ashish', 'Milan'],
                            "Gender": ["", "", ""],
                            "Age": [0, 0, 0]})
  
Mydataframe['Department'] = np.nan
display(Mydataframe)
  
nan_value = float("NaN")
Mydataframe.replace(0, nan_value, inplace=True)
  
Mydataframe.dropna(how='all', axis=1, inplace=True)
  
# show the dataframe
display(Mydataframe)


Output:

Example 4:

Replace all zeros and empty places with null and then Remove all null values column with dropna function.

Python3




# import required libraries
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
  
# create a Dataframe
Mydataframe = pd.DataFrame({'FirstName': ['Vipul', 'Ashish', 'Milan'],
                            "Gender": ["", "", ""],
                            "Age": [0, 0, 0]})
  
Mydataframe['Department'] = np.nan
display(Mydataframe)
  
nan_value = float("NaN")
Mydataframe.replace(0, nan_value, inplace=True)
Mydataframe.replace("", nan_value, inplace=True)
  
Mydataframe.dropna(how='all', axis=1, inplace=True)
  
# show the dataframe
display(Mydataframe)


Output:



Last Updated : 23 Dec, 2020
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