python - Deleting multiple columns based on column names in Pandas

Question

I have some data and when I import it I get the following unneeded columns I'm looking for an easy way to delete all of these

   'Unnamed: 24', 'Unnamed: 25', 'Unnamed: 26', 'Unnamed: 27',
   'Unnamed: 28', 'Unnamed: 29', 'Unnamed: 30', 'Unnamed: 31',
   'Unnamed: 32', 'Unnamed: 33', 'Unnamed: 34', 'Unnamed: 35',
   'Unnamed: 36', 'Unnamed: 37', 'Unnamed: 38', 'Unnamed: 39',
   'Unnamed: 40', 'Unnamed: 41', 'Unnamed: 42', 'Unnamed: 43',
   'Unnamed: 44', 'Unnamed: 45', 'Unnamed: 46', 'Unnamed: 47',
   'Unnamed: 48', 'Unnamed: 49', 'Unnamed: 50', 'Unnamed: 51',
   'Unnamed: 52', 'Unnamed: 53', 'Unnamed: 54', 'Unnamed: 55',
   'Unnamed: 56', 'Unnamed: 57', 'Unnamed: 58', 'Unnamed: 59',
   'Unnamed: 60'

They are indexed by 0-indexing so I tried something like

    df.drop(df.columns[[22, 23, 24, 25, 
    26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 ,55]], axis=1, inplace=True)

But this isn't very efficient. I tried writing some for loops but this struck me as bad Pandas behaviour. Hence i ask the question here.

I've seen some examples which are similar (Drop multiple columns pandas) but this doesn't answer my question.

Answer 1

The by far the simplest approach is:

yourdf.drop(['columnheading1', 'columnheading2'], axis=1, inplace=True)