I have a Dataframe I receive from a crawler that I am importing into a database for long-term storage. The problem I am running into is a large amount of the various dataframes have uppercase and whitespace. I have a fix for it but I was wondering if it can be done any cleaner than this: def clean_columns(dataframe): for column in dataframe: dataframe.rename(columns = {column : column.lower().replace(" ", "_")}, inplace = 1) return dataframe print(dataframe.columns) Index(['Daily Foo', 'Weekly Bar']) dataframe = clean_columns(dataframe) print(dataframe.columns) Index(['daily_foo', 'weekly_bar']) Continue reading...