Getting wider output in PyCharm's built-in console

Question

I\'m relatively new to using the PyCharm IDE, and have been unable to find a way to better shape the output when in a built-in console session. I\'m typically working with prett

Answer 1

The answer by @mattvivier works nicely when printing Pandas dataframes (thanks!).

However, if you are printing NumPy arrays, you need to set np.set_printoptions as well:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
desired_width = 320
pd.set_option('display.width', desired_width)
np.set_printoptions(linewidth=desired_width)

See docs on NumPy and set_printoptions.

Answer 2

For me, just setting 'display.width' wasn't enough in pycharm, it kept displaying in truncated form.

However, adding the option pd.set_option("display.max_columns", 10) together with display width worked and I was able to see the whole dataframe printed in the "run" output.

In summary:

import pandas as pd    
pd.set_option('display.width', 400)
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 10)

Answer 3

def pd_set_df_view_options(max_rows=1000, max_columns=350, display_width=320):

    # Show more than 10 or 20 rows when a dataframe comes back.
    pd.set_option('display.max_rows', max_rows) 
    # Columns displayed in debug view
    pd.set_option('display.max_columns', max_columns)

    pd.set_option('display.width', display_width)

# run
pd_set_df_view_options(max_rows=1000, max_columns=350, display_width=320)

Answer 4

It appears I was mistaken in thinking that the issue was one in PyCharm (that could be solved, for example, in a setting or preference.) It actually has to do with the console session itself. The console attempts to auto-detect the width of the display area, but when that fails it defaults to 80 characters. This behavior can be overridden with:

import pandas as pd
desired_width = 320    
pd.set_option('display.width', desired_width)

Where you can of course set the desired_width to whatever your display will tolerate. Thanks to @TidB for the suggestion that my initial concern wasn't focused in the right area.