Delete the first three rows of a dataframe in pandas

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I need to delete the first three rows of a dataframe in pandas   I know df ix  -1  would remove the last row  but I can t figure out how to remove first n rows

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You can use python slicing  but note it s not in-place   In  15   import pandas as pd In  16   import numpy as np In  17   df   pd DataFrame np random random  5 2    In  18   df Out 18             0         1 0  0 294077  0 229471 1  0 949007  0 790340 2  0 039961  0 720277 3  0 401468  0 803777 4  0 539951  0 763267  In  19   df 3   Out 19             0         1 3  0 401468  0 803777 4  0 539951  0 763267

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inp0  pd read csv  bank marketing updated v1 csv  skiprows 2   or if you want to do in existing dataframe  simply do following command

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A simple way is to use tail -n  to remove the first n rows  df df tail -3

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I think a more explicit way of doing this is to use drop   The syntax is   df drop label    And as pointed out by  tim and  ChaimG  this can be done in-place   df drop label  inplace True    One way of implementing this could be   df drop df index  3   inplace True    And another  in place  use   df drop df head 3  index  inplace True

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Use iloc   df   df iloc 3     will give you a new df without the first three rows

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df drop df index  0 2      Pandas uses zero based numbering  so 0 is the first row  1 is the second row and 2 is the third row

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df   df iloc n     n drops the first n rows

[python] Delete the first three rows of a dataframe in pandas

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