Get the list of column headers or column name in python pandas

In this section we will learn how to get the list of column headers or column name in python pandas using list() function.  Lets see with an example

Create Dataframe:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a DataFrame
d = {
    'Name':['Alisa','Bobby','jodha','jack','raghu','Cathrine',
            'Alisa','Bobby','kumar','Alisa','Alex','Cathrine'],
    'Age':[26,24,23,22,23,24,26,24,22,23,24,24],
     
       'Score':[85,63,55,74,31,77,85,63,42,62,89,77]}

df = pd.DataFrame(d,columns=['Name','Age','Score'])
df

so the output will be

Get the list of column headers or column name:

Method 1:

# method 1: get list of column name
list(df.columns.values)

The above function gets the column names and converts them to list. So the output will be

Method 2:

# method 2: get list of column name
list(df)

The above function gets list of column name. The output will be