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Last Updated : 16 Nov, 2018
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Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier. dataframe.rename_axis() is used to rename the axes of the index or columns in dataframe.
Syntax: DataFrame.rename_axis(mapper, axis=0, copy=True, inplace=False) Parameters: mapper : [scalar, list-like, optional] Value to set the axis name attribute. axis : int or string, default 0 copy : [iboolean, default True] Also copy underlying data inplace :boolean, default False Returns: renamed : type of caller or None if inplace=True
For link to CSV file Used in Code, click here Example #1: Replace team "Boston Celtics" with "Omega Warrior" in the nba.csv file Python3 1==
# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# Making data frame from the csv file
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# Printing the first 10 rows of the 
# dataframe for visualization
df[:10]
Output: We are going to change the row indexes and increase the value by twice. Python3 1==
# this will Increase the row index value by twice
df.rename_axis(lambda x:x * 2, axis ="index")
Output:   Example #2: Changing the column name Python3 1==
# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# Making data frame from the csv file
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# this will add '_X' at the end of each column name
df.rename_axis(lambda x:x+"_X", axis ="columns")
Output:

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