get less correlated variable names - pandas

Question

I have a dataset (50 columns, 100 rows).
Also have 50 variable names, 0,1,2...49 for 50 columns.
I have to find less correlated variables, say correlation < 0.7.
I tried as follows:
import os, glob, time, numpy as np, pandas as pd
data = np.random.randint(1,99,size=(100, 50))
dataframe = pd.DataFrame(data)
print (dataframe.shape)
codes = np.arange(50).astype(str)
dataframe.columns = codes
corr = dataframe.corr()
corr = corr.unstack().sort_values()
print (corr)
corr = corr.values
indices = np.where(corr < 0.7)
print (indices)
res = codes[indices[0]].tolist() + codes[indices[1]].tolist()
print (len(res))
res = list(set(res))
print (len(res))
The result is, 50(all variables!), which is unexpected.
How to solve this problem, guys?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, your question is somewhat ambiguous. First, there is the possibility, that no column pair is correlated. Second, the unstacking doesn't make sense, because you create an index array that you can't directly use on your 2D array. Third, which should be first, but I was blind to this - as #AmiTavory mentioned there is no point in "correlating names".
The correlation procedure per se works, as you can see in the following example:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
A = np.arange(100).reshape(25, 4)
#random order in column 2, i.e. a low correlation to the first columns
np.random.shuffle(A[:,2])
#flip column 3 to create a negative correlation with the first columns
A[:,3] = np.flipud(A[:,3])
#column 1 is unchanged, therefore positively correlated to column 0
df = pd.DataFrame(A)
print(df)
#establish a correlation matrix
corr = df.corr()
#retrieve index of pairs below a certain value
#use only the upper triangle with np.triu to filter for symmetric solutions
#use np.abs to take also negative correlation into account
res = np.argwhere(np.triu(np.abs(corr.values) <0.7))
print(res)
Output:
[[0 2]
[1 2]
[2 3]]
As expected, column 2 is the only one that is not correlated to any other, meaning, that all other columns are correlated with each other.