I am having below pandas dataframe df
. I am trying to rename the column names but it not working as expected.
Code:
mapping = {df.columns[0]:'Date', df.columns[1]: 'A', df.columns[2]:'B', df.columns[3]: 'C',df.columns[4]:'D', df.columns[5]: 'E',df.columns[6]:'F', df.columns[7]: 'G',df.columns[8]:'H', df.columns[9]: 'J'}
df.rename(columns=mapping)
Output of df.columns
:
MultiIndex(levels=[['A Index', 'B Index', 'C Index', 'D Index', 'E Index', 'F Index', 'G Index', 'H Index', 'I Index', 'J Index', 'K Index', 'L Index', 'M Index', 'N Index', 'O Index', 'date', 'index'], ['PX_LAST', '']],
labels=[[16, 15, 11, 9, 10, 6, 3, 4, 2, 5, 14, 1, 13, 12, 7, 0, 8], [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]],
names=['ticker', 'field'])
Even after running the code, column name stays the same. Can anyone help rename column names of this dataframe.
Because you know the order of the columns already why not just use:
df.columns = ['Date', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f' 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j']
Otherwise if you want to use rename
you will need to assign it to a variable:
mapping = {df.columns[0]:'Date', df.columns[1]: 'A', df.columns[2]:'B', df.columns[3]: 'C',df.columns[4]:'D', df.columns[5]: 'E',df.columns[6]:'F', df.columns[7]: 'G',df.columns[8]:'H', df.columns[9]: 'J'}
df = df.rename(columns=mapping)