How to delete the last column of data of a pandas dataframe

Question

I have some cvs data that has an empty column at the end of each row. I would like to leave it out of the import or alternatively delete it after import. My cvs data's have a varying number of columns. I've tried using df.tail(), but haven't managed to choose the last column with it.

employment=pd.read_csv('./data/spanish/employment1976-1987thousands.csv',index_col=0,header=[7,8],encoding='latin-1') 

Data:

4.- Resultados provinciales Encuesta de Población Activa. Principales Resultados  Activos por provincia y grupo de edad (4). Unidades:miles de personas   ,Álava,,,,Albacete,,,,Alicante,,,,Almería,,,,Asturias,,,,Ávila,,,,Badajoz,,,,Balears (Illes),,,,Barcelona,,,,Burgos,,,,Cáceres,,,,Cádiz,,,,Cantabria,,,,Castellón de la Plana,,,,Ciudad Real,,,,Córdoba,,,,Coruña (A),,,,Cuenca,,,,Girona,,,,Granada,,,,Guadalajara,,,,Guipúzcoa,,,,Huelva,,,,Huesca,,,,Jaén,,,,León,,,,Lleida,,,,Lugo,,,,Madrid,,,,Málaga,,,,Murcia,,,,Navarra,,,,Orense,,,,Palencia,,,,Palmas (Las),,,,Pontevedra,,,,Rioja (La),,,,Salamanca,,,,Santa Cruz de Tenerife,,,,Segovia,,,,Sevilla,,,,Soria,,,,Tarragona,,,,Teruel,,,,Toledo,,,,Valencia,,,,Valladolid,,,,Vizcaya,,,,Zamora,,,,Zaragoza,,,,Ceuta y Melilla,,,, ,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 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55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años,de 16 a 19 años,de 20 a 24 años,de 25 a 54 años,de 55 y más años, 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

Answer 1

Here's a one-liner that does not require specifying the column name

df.drop(df.columns[len(df.columns)-1], axis=1, inplace=True) 

Answer 2

Another method to delete last column in DataFrame df:

df = df.iloc[:, :-1]