How do I expand the output display to see more columns of a pandas DataFrame?

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 pand

Answer 1

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-level options 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 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. [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.