I work with Series and DataFrames on the terminal a lot. The default __repr__ for a Series returns a reduced sample, with some head and tail values, but the rest missing.

Is there a builtin way to pretty-print the entire Series / DataFrame? Ideally, it would support proper alignment, perhaps borders between columns, and maybe even color-coding for the different columns.

You can also use the option_context, with one or more options:

with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_columns', None):  # more options can be specified also
    print(df)

This will automatically return the options to their previous values.

If you are working on jupyter-notebook, using display(df) instead of print(df) will use jupyter rich display logic (like so).

No need to hack settings. There is a simple way:

print(df.to_string())

Sure, if this comes up a lot, make a function like this one. You can even configure it to load every time you start IPython: https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/1/config/overview.html

def print_full(x):
    pd.set_option('display.max_rows', len(x))
    print(x)
    pd.reset_option('display.max_rows')

As for coloring, getting too elaborate with colors sounds counterproductive to me, but I agree something like bootstrap’s .table-striped would be nice. You could always create an issue to suggest this feature.

After importing pandas, as an alternative to using the context manager, set such options for displaying entire dataframes:

pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)  # or 1000
pd.set_option('display.max_rows', None)  # or 1000
pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', -1)  # or 199

For full list of useful options, see:

pd.describe_option('display')

Use the tabulate package:

pip install tabulate

And consider the following example usage:

import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO
from tabulate import tabulate

c = """Chromosome Start End
chr1 3 6
chr1 5 7
chr1 8 9"""

df = pd.read_table(StringIO(c), sep="\s+", header=0)

print(tabulate(df, headers='keys', tablefmt='psql'))

+----+--------------+---------+-------+
|    | Chromosome   |   Start |   End |
|----+--------------+---------+-------|
|  0 | chr1         |       3 |     6 |
|  1 | chr1         |       5 |     7 |
|  2 | chr1         |       8 |     9 |
+----+--------------+---------+-------+

If you are using Ipython Notebook (Jupyter). You can use HTML

from IPython.core.display import HTML
display(HTML(df.to_html()))

Using pd.options.display

This answer is a variation of the prior answer by lucidyan. It makes the code more readable by avoiding the use of set_option.

After importing pandas, as an alternative to using the context manager, set such options for displaying large dataframes:

def set_pandas_display_options() -> None:
    # Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52432757/
    display = pd.options.display

    display.max_columns = 1000
    display.max_rows = 1000
    display.max_colwidth = 199
    display.width = None
    # display.precision = 2  # set as needed

set_pandas_display_options()

After this, you can use either display(df) or just df if using a notebook, otherwise print(df).

Using to_string

Pandas 0.25.3 does have DataFrame.to_string and Series.to_string methods which accept formatting options.

Using to_markdown

If what you need is markdown output, Pandas 1.0.0 has DataFrame.to_markdown and Series.to_markdown methods.

Using to_html

If what you need is HTML output, Pandas 0.25.3 does have a DataFrame.to_html method but not a Series.to_html. Note that a Series can be converted to a DataFrame.

Try this

pd.set_option('display.height',1000)
pd.set_option('display.max_rows',500)
pd.set_option('display.max_columns',500)
pd.set_option('display.width',1000)

You can achieve this using below method. just pass the total no. of columns present in the DataFrame as arg to

‘display.max_columns’

For eg :

df= DataFrame(..)
with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_columns', df.shape[1]):
    print(df)

Try using display() function. This would automatically use Horizontal and vertical scroll bars and with this you can display different datasets easily instead of using print().

display(dataframe)

display() supports proper alignment also.

However if you want to make the dataset more beautiful you can check pd.option_context(). It has lot of options to clearly show the dataframe.

Note – I am using Jupyter Notebooks.