TypeError: drop() got multiple values for argument 'axis' when dropping multiple columns

Question

I have a dataframe called "tips" in which I am trying to drop two columns, tip and higher_than_15pct_true, as follows:

X = tips.drop('tip','higher_than_15pct_True', axis = 1)

This results in the following error:

TypeError: drop() got multiple values for argument 'axis'

How can I fix this?

Mihai Chelaru · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-09 15:40:16Z

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According to the pandas documentation for DataFrame.drop, you need to pass either a single label, or a list if you have multiple columns:

X = tips.drop(['tip','higher_than_15pct_True'], axis = 1)

The TypeError unfortunately ends up being quite cryptic and unrelated to the real problem at hand.

answered Sep 9, 2019 at 15:40

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abdoulsn · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-09 15:49:23Z

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You forget the bracket. Or use this one

remove = ['tip','higher_than_15pct_True']
tips= df[df.columns.difference(remove)]

Thanks

answered Sep 9, 2019 at 15:49

abdoulsn

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