pandas Dropping Entries from an

In [105]: obj = pd.Series(np.arange(5.), index=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'])
In [106]: obj
Out[106]:
a 0.0
b 1.0
c 2.0
d 3.0
e 4.0
dtype: float64
In [107]: new_obj = obj.drop('c')
In [108]: new_obj
Out[108]:
a 0.0
b 1.0
d 3.0
e 4.0
dtype: float64

In [109]: obj.drop(['d', 'c'])
Out[109]:
a 0.0
b 1.0
e 4.0
dtype: float64

With DataFrame, index values can be deleted from either axis. To illustrate this, we
first create an example DataFrame:
In [110]: data = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(16).reshape((4, 4)),
.....: index=['Ohio', 'Colorado', 'Utah', 'New York'],
.....: columns=['one', 'two', 'three', 'four'])

In [111]: data
Out[111]:
one two three four
Ohio 0 1 2 3
Colorado 4 5 6 7
Utah 8 9 10 11
New York 12 13 14 15

You can drop values from the columns by passing axis=1 or axis='columns':

In [113]: data.drop('two', axis=1)
Out[113]:
one three four
Ohio 0 2 3
Colorado 4 6 7
Utah 8 10 11
New York 12 14 15
In [114]: data.drop(['two', 'four'], axis='columns')
Out[114]:
one three
Ohio 0 2
Colorado 4 6
Utah 8 10
New York 12 14

Many functions, like drop, which modify the size or shape of a Series or DataFrame,
can manipulate an object in-place without returning a new object:

In [115]: obj.drop('c', inplace=True)
In [116]: obj
Out[116]:
a 0.0
b 1.0
d 3.0
e 4.0
dtype: float64

Be careful with the inplace, as it destroys any data that is dropped.