pandas.DataFrame.drop_duplicates

Return DataFrame with duplicate rows removed, optionally only considering certain columns. Indexes, including time indexes are ignored.

param subset
column label or sequence of labels, optional

Only consider certain columns for identifying duplicates, by default use all of the columns

param keep
{‘first’, ‘last’, False}, default ‘first’
  • first : Drop duplicates except for the first occurrence.

  • last : Drop duplicates except for the last occurrence.

  • False : Drop all duplicates.

param inplace
boolean, default False

Whether to drop duplicates in place or to return a copy

return

DataFrame

Warning

This feature is currently unsupported by Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler