Not seeing the full column, in Pandas Dataframe

Question

In my dataframe, I have a one column which has a very large set with a lot of information.

When I do:

df.head()

It crops the column data so I can't see it all. Any ideas how stop the cropping and have scrollbar instead?

Thanks

I like this [solution](https://stackoverflow.com/a/30691921/2901002), not sure if need this. — jezrael, Mar 25 '18 at 14:47
@jezrael That's nice I'll accept that as a solution, if you want? — More Than Five, Mar 25 '18 at 15:08
I really like create answer, but then people of SO kill me, because dupe :( But if accept some oldier unaccepting my solution(s), it will be very nice :) — jezrael, Mar 25 '18 at 15:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '18 at 16:19

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An easy solution is to just set display.max_colwidth to -1 like:

pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', -1)

answered Mar 25 '18 at 16:19

Dr G.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '18 at 14:52

The command df.head() prints the first few rows of a dataframe, df.tail() the last rows. It is 5 by default, but you could say, e.g., df.head(20) to get 20 rows.

df should return the entire data frame and with df[n:m] you can return the rows from n to m, just df[:5] is the same as the head function.

See here for more on data frames.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '18 at 15:08

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One to do this:

pd.set_option('max_colwidth', 2000)

answered Mar 25 '18 at 15:08

More Than Five

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Not seeing the full column, in Pandas Dataframe

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