Pandas Python : how to create multiple columns from a list

You need to add the columns one by one.

for col in new_cols:
    df[col] = 0

Also see the answers in here for other methods.

Use assign by dictionary:

df = pd.DataFrame({
    'A': ['a','a','a','a','b','b','b','c','d'],
    'B': list(range(9))
})
print (df)
0  a  0
1  a  1
2  a  2
3  a  3
4  b  4
5  b  5
6  b  6
7  c  7
8  d  8

new_cols = ['new_1', 'new_2', 'new_3']
df = df.assign(**dict.fromkeys(new_cols, 0))
print (df)
   A  B  new_1  new_2  new_3
0  a  0      0      0      0
1  a  1      0      0      0
2  a  2      0      0      0
3  a  3      0      0      0
4  b  4      0      0      0
5  b  5      0      0      0
6  b  6      0      0      0
7  c  7      0      0      0
8  d  8      0      0      0

You can use assign:

new_cols = ['new_1', 'new_2', 'new_3']
values = [0, 0, 0]   # could be anything, also pd.Series

df = df.assign(**dict(zip(new_cols, values)

Try looping through the column names before creating the column:

for col in new_cols:
    df[col] = 0