Using describe() method to exclude a column

Question

I am new to using python with data sets and am trying to exclude a column ("id") from being shown in the output. Wondering how to go about this using the describe() and exclude functions.

Answer 1

describe works on the datatypes. You can include or exclude based on the datatype & not based on columns. If your column id is of unique data type, then

df.describe(exclude=[datatype])

or if you just want to remove the column(s) in describe, then try this

cols = set(df.columns) - {'id'}
df1 = df[list(cols)]
df1.describe()

TaDa its done. For more info on describe click here