How to rename multiple column headers in a Pandas DataFrame?

This recipe helps you rename multiple column headers in a Pandas DataFrame

Recipe Objective

If we want to rename some of all the columns then creating a new dataset may not be possible. We can do this by simply few lines of codes.

So this is the recipe on How we can rename multiple column headers in a Pandas DataFrame.

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Step 1 - Import the library

import pandas as pd

We have only imported pandas which is required for this.

Step 2 - Setting up the Data

We have created a dictionary with columns 'Name', 'Comic', 'Episodes' and passed this in pd.DataFrame to create a DataFrame with index. data = {'Name': ['Amy', 'penny', 'Sheldon', 'Raj', 'Leonard'], 'Comic': [8, 7, 10, 2, 8], 'Episodes': [32, 66, 70, 62, 69]} df = pd.DataFrame(data, index = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']) print(df)

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Step 3 - Renaming the columns and Printing the Dataset

We can change the columns by renaming all the columns by df.columns = ['Character', 'Funny', 'Episodes'] print(df) Or we can rename especific column by creating a dictionary and passing through df.rename with a additional parameter inplace which is bool by default it is False. df.rename(columns={'Character':'Name'}, inplace=True) print(df) Output of the dataset is

      Name  Comic  Episodes
a      Amy      8        32
b    penny      7        66
c  Sheldon     10        70
d      Raj      2        62
e  Leonard      8        69

  Character  Funny  Episodes
a       Amy      8        32
b     penny      7        66
c   Sheldon     10        70
d       Raj      2        62
e   Leonard      8        69

      Name  Funny  Episodes
a      Amy      8        32
b    penny      7        66
c  Sheldon     10        70
d      Raj      2        62
e  Leonard      8        69

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