Why doesn't pandas drop_duplicates() seem to work for me?

Question

I have a dataframe with one text column. It has duplicate elements in different rows. I want to eliminate the duplicates. I use df.drop_duplicates(..., inplace=True) but it doesn't seem to work.

How do I solve this?

Answer 1

The issue over here was because i was modifying the dataframe on itself. Storing the modified data in another dataset, solved the purpose.

What I was doing:
    df.drop_duplicates()

What had to be done:
    df1=df.drop_duplicates()