How do I expand the output display to see more columns of a pandas DataFrame?
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13-12-2019 - |
Question
Is there a way to widen the display of output in either interactive or script-execution mode?
Specifically, I am using the describe()
function on a pandas DataFrame
. When the DataFrame
is 5 columns (labels) wide, I get the descriptive statistics that I want. However, if the DataFrame
has any more columns, the statistics are suppressed and something like this is returned:
>> Index: 8 entries, count to max
>> Data columns:
>> x1 8 non-null values
>> x2 8 non-null values
>> x3 8 non-null values
>> x4 8 non-null values
>> x5 8 non-null values
>> x6 8 non-null values
>> x7 8 non-null values
The "8" value is given whether there are 6 or 7 columns. What does the "8" refer to?
I have already tried dragging the IDLE window larger, as well as increasing the "Configure IDLE" width options, to no avail.
My purpose in using pandas and describe()
is to avoid using a second program like Stata to do basic data manipulation and investigation.
Solution
Update: Pandas 0.23.4 onwards
This is not necessary, pandas autodetects the size of your terminal window if you set pd.options.display.width = 0
. (For older versions see at bottom.)
pandas.set_printoptions(...)
is deprecated. Instead, use pandas.set_option(optname, val)
, or equivalently pd.options.<opt.hierarchical.name> = val
. Like:
import pandas as pd
pd.set_option('display.max_rows', 500)
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 500)
pd.set_option('display.width', 1000)
Here is the help for set_option
:
set_option(pat,value) - Sets the value of the specified option Available options: display.[chop_threshold, colheader_justify, column_space, date_dayfirst, date_yearfirst, encoding, expand_frame_repr, float_format, height, line_width, max_columns, max_colwidth, max_info_columns, max_info_rows, max_rows, max_seq_items, mpl_style, multi_sparse, notebook_repr_html, pprint_nest_depth, precision, width] mode.[sim_interactive, use_inf_as_null] Parameters ---------- pat - str/regexp which should match a single option. Note: partial matches are supported for convenience, but unless you use the full option name (e.g. x.y.z.option_name), your code may break in future versions if new options with similar names are introduced. value - new value of option. Returns ------- None Raises ------ KeyError if no such option exists display.chop_threshold: [default: None] [currently: None] : float or None if set to a float value, all float values smaller then the given threshold will be displayed as exactly 0 by repr and friends. display.colheader_justify: [default: right] [currently: right] : 'left'/'right' Controls the justification of column headers. used by DataFrameFormatter. display.column_space: [default: 12] [currently: 12]No description available. display.date_dayfirst: [default: False] [currently: False] : boolean When True, prints and parses dates with the day first, eg 20/01/2005 display.date_yearfirst: [default: False] [currently: False] : boolean When True, prints and parses dates with the year first, eg 2005/01/20 display.encoding: [default: UTF-8] [currently: UTF-8] : str/unicode Defaults to the detected encoding of the console. Specifies the encoding to be used for strings returned by to_string, these are generally strings meant to be displayed on the console. display.expand_frame_repr: [default: True] [currently: True] : boolean Whether to print out the full DataFrame repr for wide DataFrames across multiple lines, `max_columns` is still respected, but the output will wrap-around across multiple "pages" if it's width exceeds `display.width`. display.float_format: [default: None] [currently: None] : callable The callable should accept a floating point number and return a string with the desired format of the number. This is used in some places like SeriesFormatter. See core.format.EngFormatter for an example. display.height: [default: 60] [currently: 1000] : int Deprecated. (Deprecated, use `display.height` instead.) display.line_width: [default: 80] [currently: 1000] : int Deprecated. (Deprecated, use `display.width` instead.) display.max_columns: [default: 20] [currently: 500] : int max_rows and max_columns are used in __repr__() methods to decide if to_string() or info() is used to render an object to a string. In case python/IPython is running in a terminal this can be set to 0 and pandas will correctly auto-detect the width the terminal and swap to a smaller format in case all columns would not fit vertically. The IPython notebook, IPython qtconsole, or IDLE do not run in a terminal and hence it is not possible to do correct auto-detection. 'None' value means unlimited. display.max_colwidth: [default: 50] [currently: 50] : int The maximum width in characters of a column in the repr of a pandas data structure. When the column overflows, a "..." placeholder is embedded in the output. display.max_info_columns: [default: 100] [currently: 100] : int max_info_columns is used in DataFrame.info method to decide if per column information will be printed. display.max_info_rows: [default: 1690785] [currently: 1690785] : int or None max_info_rows is the maximum number of rows for which a frame will perform a null check on its columns when repr'ing To a console. The default is 1,000,000 rows. So, if a DataFrame has more 1,000,000 rows there will be no null check performed on the columns and thus the representation will take much less time to display in an interactive session. A value of None means always perform a null check when repr'ing. display.max_rows: [default: 60] [currently: 500] : int This sets the maximum number of rows pandas should output when printing out various output. For example, this value determines whether the repr() for a dataframe prints out fully or just a summary repr. 'None' value means unlimited. display.max_seq_items: [default: None] [currently: None] : int or None when pretty-printing a long sequence, no more then `max_seq_items` will be printed. If items are ommitted, they will be denoted by the addition of "..." to the resulting string. If set to None, the number of items to be printed is unlimited. display.mpl_style: [default: None] [currently: None] : bool Setting this to 'default' will modify the rcParams used by matplotlib to give plots a more pleasing visual style by default. Setting this to None/False restores the values to their initial value. display.multi_sparse: [default: True] [currently: True] : boolean "sparsify" MultiIndex display (don't display repeated elements in outer levels within groups) display.notebook_repr_html: [default: True] [currently: True] : boolean When True, IPython notebook will use html representation for pandas objects (if it is available). display.pprint_nest_depth: [default: 3] [currently: 3] : int Controls the number of nested levels to process when pretty-printing display.precision: [default: 7] [currently: 7] : int Floating point output precision (number of significant digits). This is only a suggestion display.width: [default: 80] [currently: 1000] : int Width of the display in characters. In case python/IPython is running in a terminal this can be set to None and pandas will correctly auto-detect the width. Note that the IPython notebook, IPython qtconsole, or IDLE do not run in a terminal and hence it is not possible to correctly detect the width. mode.sim_interactive: [default: False] [currently: False] : boolean Whether to simulate interactive mode for purposes of testing mode.use_inf_as_null: [default: False] [currently: False] : boolean True means treat None, NaN, INF, -INF as null (old way), False means None and NaN are null, but INF, -INF are not null (new way). Call def: pd.set_option(self, *args, **kwds)
EDIT: older version information, much of this has been deprecated.
As @bmu mentioned, pandas auto detects (by default) the size of the display area, a summary view will be used when an object repr does not fit on the display. You mentioned resizing the IDLE window, to no effect. If you do print df.describe().to_string()
does it fit on the IDLE window?
The terminal size is determined by pandas.util.terminal.get_terminal_size()
(deprecated and removed), this returns a tuple containing the (width, height)
of the display. Does the output match the size of your IDLE window? There might be an issue (there was one before when running a terminal in emacs).
Note that it is possible to bypass the autodetect, pandas.set_printoptions(max_rows=200, max_columns=10)
will never switch to summary view if number of rows, columns does not exceed the given limits.
The 'max_colwidth' option helps in seeing untruncated form of each column.
OTHER TIPS
Try this:
pd.set_option('display.expand_frame_repr', False)
From the documentation:
display.expand_frame_repr : boolean
Whether to print out the full DataFrame repr for wide DataFrames across multiple lines, max_columns is still respected, but the output will wrap-around across multiple “pages” if it’s width exceeds display.width. [default: True] [currently: True]
See: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.set_option.html
If you want to set options temporarily to display one large DataFrame, you can use option_context:
with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', -1, 'display.max_columns', 5):
print df
Option values are restored automatically when you exit the with
block.
Only using these 3 lines worked for me:
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)
pd.set_option('display.expand_frame_repr', False)
pd.set_option('max_colwidth', -1)
Anaconda / Python 3.6.5 / pandas: 0.23.0 / Visual Studio Code 1.26
Set column max width using:
pd.set_option('max_colwidth', 800)
This particular statement sets max width to 800px, per column.
You can adjust pandas print options with set_printoptions
.
In [3]: df.describe()
Out[3]:
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
Index: 8 entries, count to max
Data columns:
x1 8 non-null values
x2 8 non-null values
x3 8 non-null values
x4 8 non-null values
x5 8 non-null values
x6 8 non-null values
x7 8 non-null values
dtypes: float64(7)
In [4]: pd.set_printoptions(precision=2)
In [5]: df.describe()
Out[5]:
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7
count 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0
mean 69024.5 69025.5 69026.5 69027.5 69028.5 69029.5 69030.5
std 17.1 17.1 17.1 17.1 17.1 17.1 17.1
min 69000.0 69001.0 69002.0 69003.0 69004.0 69005.0 69006.0
25% 69012.2 69013.2 69014.2 69015.2 69016.2 69017.2 69018.2
50% 69024.5 69025.5 69026.5 69027.5 69028.5 69029.5 69030.5
75% 69036.8 69037.8 69038.8 69039.8 69040.8 69041.8 69042.8
max 69049.0 69050.0 69051.0 69052.0 69053.0 69054.0 69055.0
However this will not work in all cases as pandas detects your console width and it will only use to_string
if the output fits in the console (see the docstring of set_printoptions
).
In this case you can explicitly call to_string
as answered by BrenBarn.
Update
With version 0.10 the way wide dataframes are printed changed:
In [3]: df.describe()
Out[3]:
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 \
count 8.000000 8.000000 8.000000 8.000000 8.000000
mean 59832.361578 27356.711336 49317.281222 51214.837838 51254.839690
std 22600.723536 26867.192716 28071.737509 21012.422793 33831.515761
min 31906.695474 1648.359160 56.378115 16278.322271 43.745574
25% 45264.625201 12799.540572 41429.628749 40374.273582 29789.643875
50% 56340.214856 18666.456293 51995.661512 54894.562656 47667.684422
75% 75587.003417 31375.610322 61069.190523 67811.893435 76014.884048
max 98136.474782 84544.484627 91743.983895 75154.587156 99012.695717
x6 x7
count 8.000000 8.000000
mean 41863.000717 33950.235126
std 38709.468281 29075.745673
min 3590.990740 1833.464154
25% 15145.759625 6879.523949
50% 22139.243042 33706.029946
75% 72038.983496 51449.893980
max 98601.190488 83309.051963
Further more the API for setting pandas options changed:
In [4]: pd.set_option('display.precision', 2)
In [5]: df.describe()
Out[5]:
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7
count 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0
mean 59832.4 27356.7 49317.3 51214.8 51254.8 41863.0 33950.2
std 22600.7 26867.2 28071.7 21012.4 33831.5 38709.5 29075.7
min 31906.7 1648.4 56.4 16278.3 43.7 3591.0 1833.5
25% 45264.6 12799.5 41429.6 40374.3 29789.6 15145.8 6879.5
50% 56340.2 18666.5 51995.7 54894.6 47667.7 22139.2 33706.0
75% 75587.0 31375.6 61069.2 67811.9 76014.9 72039.0 51449.9
max 98136.5 84544.5 91744.0 75154.6 99012.7 98601.2 83309.1
You can use print df.describe().to_string()
to force it to show the whole table. (You can use to_string()
like this for any DataFrame. The result of describe
is just a DataFrame itself.)
The 8 is the number of rows in the DataFrame holding the "description" (because describe
computes 8 statistics, min, max, mean, etc.).
You can set the output display to match your current terminal width:
pd.set_option('display.width', pd.util.terminal.get_terminal_size()[0])
According to the docs for v0.18.0, if you're running on a terminal (ie not iPython notebook, qtconsole or IDLE), it's a 2-liner to have Pandas auto-detect your screen width and adapt on the fly with how many columns it shows:
pd.set_option('display.large_repr', 'truncate')
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 0)
It seems like all above answers solve the problem. One more point: instead of pd.set_option('option_name')
, you can use the (auto-complete-able)
pd.options.display.width = None
See Pandas doc: Options and Settings:
Options have a full “dotted-style”, case-insensitive name (e.g.
display.max_rows
). You can get/set options directly as attributes of the top-leveloptions
attribute:In [1]: import pandas as pd In [2]: pd.options.display.max_rows Out[2]: 15 In [3]: pd.options.display.max_rows = 999 In [4]: pd.options.display.max_rows Out[4]: 999
[...]
for the max_...
params:
max_rows
andmax_columns
are used in__repr__()
methods to decide ifto_string()
orinfo()
is used to render an object to a string. In case python/IPython is running in a terminal this can be set to 0 and pandas will correctly auto-detect the width the terminal and swap to a smaller format in case all columns would not fit vertically. The IPython notebook, IPython qtconsole, or IDLE do not run in a terminal and hence it is not possible to do correct auto-detection. ‘None
’ value means unlimited. [emphasis not in original]
for the width
param:
Width of the display in characters. In case python/IPython is running in a terminal this can be set to
None
and pandas will correctly auto-detect the width. Note that the IPython notebook, IPython qtconsole, or IDLE do not run in a terminal and hence it is not possible to correctly detect the width.
import pandas as pd
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 100)
pd.set_option('display.width', 1000)
SentenceA = "William likes Piano and Piano likes William"
SentenceB = "Sara likes Guitar"
SentenceC = "Mamoosh likes Piano"
SentenceD = "William is a CS Student"
SentenceE = "Sara is kind"
SentenceF = "Mamoosh is kind"
bowA = SentenceA.split(" ")
bowB = SentenceB.split(" ")
bowC = SentenceC.split(" ")
bowD = SentenceD.split(" ")
bowE = SentenceE.split(" ")
bowF = SentenceF.split(" ")
# Creating a set consisted of all words
wordSet = set(bowA).union(set(bowB)).union(set(bowC)).union(set(bowD)).union(set(bowE)).union(set(bowF))
print("Set of all words is: ", wordSet)
# Initiating dictionary with 0 value for all BOWs
wordDictA = dict.fromkeys(wordSet, 0)
wordDictB = dict.fromkeys(wordSet, 0)
wordDictC = dict.fromkeys(wordSet, 0)
wordDictD = dict.fromkeys(wordSet, 0)
wordDictE = dict.fromkeys(wordSet, 0)
wordDictF = dict.fromkeys(wordSet, 0)
for word in bowA:
wordDictA[word] += 1
for word in bowB:
wordDictB[word] += 1
for word in bowC:
wordDictC[word] += 1
for word in bowD:
wordDictD[word] += 1
for word in bowE:
wordDictE[word] += 1
for word in bowF:
wordDictF[word] += 1
# Printing Term frequency
print("SentenceA TF: ", wordDictA)
print("SentenceB TF: ", wordDictB)
print("SentenceC TF: ", wordDictC)
print("SentenceD TF: ", wordDictD)
print("SentenceE TF: ", wordDictE)
print("SentenceF TF: ", wordDictF)
print(pd.DataFrame([wordDictA, wordDictB, wordDictB, wordDictC, wordDictD, wordDictE, wordDictF]))
OutPut:
CS Guitar Mamoosh Piano Sara Student William a and is kind likes
0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
4 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0
5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
I used these settings when scale of data is high.
# environment settings:
pd.set_option('display.max_column',None)
pd.set_option('display.max_rows',None)
pd.set_option('display.max_seq_items',None)
pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', 500)
pd.set_option('expand_frame_repr', True)
You can refer the documentationhere
If you don't want to mess with your display options and you just want to see this one particular list of columns without expanding out every dataframe you view, you could try:
df.columns.values
You can also try in a loop:
for col in df.columns:
print(col)
The below line is enough to display all columns from dataframe.
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)
You can simply do the following steps,
You can change the options for pandas max_columns feature as follows
import pandas as pd pd.options.display.max_columns = 10
(this allows 10 columns to display, you can change this as you need)
Like that you can change the number of rows as you need to display as follows (if you need to change maximum rows as well)
pd.options.display.max_rows = 999
(this allows to print 999 rows at a time)
Please kindly refer the doc to change different options/settings for pandas