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How to get a list of the column headers from a Pandas DataFrame?

Get list of the column headers:

import pandas as pd

employees = pd.DataFrame({
    'EmpCode': ['Emp001', 'Emp002', 'Emp003', 'Emp004', 'Emp005'],
    'Name': ['John', 'Doe', 'William', 'Spark', 'Mark'],
    'Occupation': ['Chemist', 'Statistician', 'Statistician',
                   'Statistician', 'Programmer'],
    'Date Of Join': ['2018-01-25', '2018-01-26', '2018-01-26', '2018-02-26',
                     '2018-03-16'],
    'Age': [23, 24, 34, 29, 40]})

print(list(employees))

print(list(employees.columns.values))

print(employees.columns.tolist())


C:\python\pandas examples>python example10.py
['Age', 'Date Of Join', 'EmpCode', 'Name', 'Occupation']
['Age', 'Date Of Join', 'EmpCode', 'Name', 'Occupation']
['Age', 'Date Of Join', 'EmpCode', 'Name', 'Occupation']
 
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