how to get the columns of a dataframe

# Import pandas package  
import pandas as pd  
    
# making data frame  
data = pd.read_csv("data.csv")  
  
print(data.columns)

# Import pandas package  
import pandas as pd  
    
# making data frame  
data = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")  
    
# list(data) or 
list(data.columns) 

list(my_dataframe.columns.values)