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I have a dataframe (df) which I would like to recycle. It's full of data and I would like to remove everything from this dataframe. Would df.drop() work?

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    Can't you just call del df or just reassign? Commented Aug 3, 2016 at 15:38
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    If you want an empty dataframe: df = pd.Dataframe([], df.index, df.columns) Commented Aug 3, 2016 at 15:54

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if you want to free some space

import gc

del adios_df
gc.collect()
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