DataFrame.drop() does not recognise the columns keyword argument

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

index = np.linspace(-3, 5, 7)
df = pd.DataFrame({'A': np.sin(index), 'B': np.cos(index**2)}, index=index)
df.drop(columns=['A'])

Problem description

The docs say that I can use the columns keyword, but when I try I get the following error:

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-139-3a18b0426444> in <module>()
      2 df = pd.DataFrame({'A': np.sin(index), 'B': np.cos(index**2)}, index=index)
      3 # type(df.apply(np.sum, axis=1, reduce=False))
----> 4 df.drop(columns=['A'])

TypeError: drop() got an unexpected keyword argument 'columns'

The following is a workaround:

df.drop('A', axis=1)

Output of pd.show_versions()