How To Set First Row of a Pandas Dataframe as Column Headers

Python

 1|  # Step 1: Get the first row of the Pandas dataframe and 
 2|  # assign to new_header variable
 3|  new_header = df.iloc[0]
 4|  
 5|  # Step 2: Update the dataframe to only include rows after th
 6|  # the first row
 7|  df = df[1:]
 8|  
 9|  # Step 3: Set the dataframe column names as the new header variabe
10|  df.columns = new_header
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