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# pandas.DataFrame.drop_duplicates

`DataFrame.``drop_duplicates`(*args, **kwargs)

  Return DataFrame with duplicate rows removed, optionally only considering certain columns

  Parameters : | subset : column label or sequence of labels, optional Only consider certain columns for identifying duplicates, by default use all of the columns take_last : boolean, default False Take the last observed row in a row. Defaults to the first row inplace : boolean, default False Whether to drop duplicates in place or to return a copy cols : kwargs only argument of subset [deprecated]
  Returns : | deduplicated : DataFrame

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