I would like to print the full text of my dataset's values, using the .head() method.
What is the best way to achieve this?
Photo below of curtailed text in the 0 row.
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Union find
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The col width is set by default to 80 characters you can change this using `pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', -1)` for unlimited but this is not recommended – EdChum May 07 '15 at 20:23
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That question is more general but doesn't address .head() specifically. – Union find May 07 '15 at 20:25
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The answer to that question is the same answer for yours – EdChum May 07 '15 at 20:26
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It is but I didn't find it on search and it wasn't clear to me that was true. – Union find May 07 '15 at 20:26
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pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', -1)
Using a -1 there effectively turns off the column width. You can pass any length you want to instead.
From the documentation:
display.max_columnwidth sets the maximum width of columns. Cells of this length or longer will be truncated with an ellipsis.
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The currently accepted answer is now deprecated since pandas 1.0:
as per the documentation, the None flag should be used instead of -1.
pd.set_option("display.max_colwidth", None)
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