Recipe Objective

Have you ever tried to rename a column in pandas dataframe by header. That is setting first element of column as the name of the column.

So this is the recipe on how we can rename column header of a Pandas DataFrame.

Step 1 - Import the library

We have imported pandas which will be needed for the dataset.

Step 2 - Setting up the Data

We have created a dataframe with features as "0", "1", "2" and "3". raw_data = {"0": ["first_name", "Penny", "Tina", "Jake", "Amy"], "1": ["last_name", "Jacobson", "Raj", "Milner", "Cooze"], "2": ["age", 52, 38, 27, 12], "3": ["Rating_Score", 29, 51, 25, 13]} df = pd.DataFrame(raw_data) print(df)

Step 3 - Renaming column with header

So Here first we have selected the first element of the columns and stored it in header and then we have selected the rest of the elements of the dataframe. Now we are renaming the columns with the values we have stored in the header. header = df.iloc[0] print(header) df = df[1:] print(df) df = df.rename(columns = header) print(df) So the output comes as:

            0          1    2             3
0  first_name  last_name  age  Rating_Score
1       Penny   Jacobson   52            29
2        Tina        Raj   38            51
3        Jake     Milner   27            25
4         Amy      Cooze   12            13

0      first_name
1       last_name
2             age
3    Rating_Score
Name: 0, dtype: object

       0         1   2   3
1  Penny  Jacobson  52  29
2   Tina       Raj  38  51
3   Jake    Milner  27  25
4    Amy     Cooze  12  13

  first_name last_name age Rating_Score
1      Penny  Jacobson  52           29
2       Tina       Raj  38           51
3       Jake    Milner  27           25
4        Amy     Cooze  12           13