Count number of columns of a Pandas DataFrame

Let's discuss how to count the number of columns of a Pandas DataFrame. Lets first make a dataframe.

Example:

# Import Required Libraries
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

# Create a dictionary for the dataframe
dict = {'Name': ['Sukritin', 'Sumit Tyagi', 'Akriti Goel',
                 'Sanskriti', 'Abhishek Jain'], 
        'Age': [22, 20, np.inf, -np.inf, 22], 
        'Marks': [90, 84, 33, 87, 82]}

# Converting Dictionary to Pandas Dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame(dict)

# Print Dataframe
df

Output: 

Method 1: Using shape property

Shape property returns the tuple representing the shape of the DataFrame. The first index consists of the number of rows and the second index consist of the number of columns.
 

# Getting shape of the df
shape = df.shape

# Printing Number of columns
print('Number of columns :', shape[1])

Output: 
 

Method 2: Using columns property

The columns property of the Pandas DataFrame return the list of columns and calculating the length of the list of columns, we can get the number of columns in the df.
 

# Getting the list of columns
col = df.columns

# Printing Number of columns
print('Number of columns :', len(col))

Output: 
 

Method 3: Casting DataFrame to list

Like the columns property, typecasting DataFrame to the list returns the list of the name of the columns.

# Typecasting df to list
df_list = list(df)

# Printing Number of columns
print('Number of columns :', len(df_list))

Output: 
 

Method 4: Using info() method of DataFrame

This methods prints a concise summary of the DataFrame. info() method prints information about the DataFrame including dtypes of columns and index, memory usage, number of columns, etc.

# Printing info of df
df.info()

Output: