1.5 Available Options

Option Default Function
display.chop_threshold 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 right Controls the justification of column headers. used by DataFrameFormatter.
display.column_space 12 No description available.
display.date_dayfirst False When True, prints and parses dates with the day first, eg 20/01/2005
display.date_yearfirst False When True, prints and parses dates with the year first, eg 2005/01/20
display.encoding UTF-8 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 True 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 its width exceeds display.width.
display.float_format None 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 60 Deprecated. Use display.max_rows instead.
display.large_repr truncate For DataFrames exceeding max_rows/max_cols, the repr (and HTML repr) can show a truncated table (the default from 0.13), or switch to the view from df.info() (the behaviour in earlier versions of pandas). allowable settings, [‘truncate’, ‘info’]
display.latex.repr False Whether to produce a latex DataFrame representation for jupyter frontends that support it.
display.latex.escape True Escapes special caracters in Dataframes, when using the to_latex method.
display.latex.longtable False Specifies if the to_latex method of a Dataframe uses the longtable format.
display.line_width 80 Deprecated. Use display.width instead.
display.max_columns 20 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 50 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 100 max_info_columns is used in DataFrame.info method to decide if per column information will be printed.
display.max_info_rows 1690785 df.info() will usually show null-counts for each column. For large frames this can be quite slow. max_info_rows and max_info_cols limit this null check only to frames with smaller dimensions then specified.
display.max_rows 60 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 100 when pretty-printing a long sequence, no more then max_seq_items will be printed. If items are omitted, 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.memory_usage True This specifies if the memory usage of a DataFrame should be displayed when the df.info() method is invoked.
display.multi_sparse True “Sparsify” MultiIndex display (don’t display repeated elements in outer levels within groups)
display.notebook_repr_html True When True, IPython notebook will use html representation for pandas objects (if it is available).
display.pprint_nest_depth 3 Controls the number of nested levels to process when pretty-printing
display.precision 6 Floating point output precision in terms of number of places after the decimal, for regular formatting as well as scientific notation. Similar to numpy’s precision print option
display.show_dimensions truncate Whether to print out dimensions at the end of DataFrame repr. If ‘truncate’ is specified, only print out the dimensions if the frame is truncated (e.g. not display all rows and/or columns)
display.width 80 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.
io.excel.xls.writer xlwt The default Excel writer engine for ‘xls’ files.
io.excel.xlsm.writer openpyxl The default Excel writer engine for ‘xlsm’ files. Available options: ‘openpyxl’ (the default).
io.excel.xlsx.writer openpyxl The default Excel writer engine for ‘xlsx’ files.
io.hdf.default_format None default format writing format, if None, then put will default to ‘fixed’ and append will default to ‘table’
io.hdf.dropna_table True drop ALL nan rows when appending to a table
mode.chained_assignment warn Raise an exception, warn, or no action if trying to use chained assignment, The default is warn
mode.sim_interactive False Whether to simulate interactive mode for purposes of testing
mode.use_inf_as_null False 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).