Changing index name in pandas dataframe

Question

I have a dataframe that looks like this:

How can I change the Unnamed: 0 and the blank header of columns so it would look like this:

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Answer 1

Try this:

df.reset_index(inplace=True)
df.rename(columns={df.columns[0]: 'BBID VALUE_DATE'}, inplace=True)
df.set_index('BBID VALUE_DATE' , inplace = True)

Answered By: gtomer

Answer 2

You want to change both the names of index and columns axis.

You can do it like this:

df.index.name = 'BBID'
df.columns.name = 'VALUE_DATE'

or with a chained method like this:

df = df.rename_axis('VALUE_DATE').rename_axis('BBID', axis=1)

Answered By: Rabinzel

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