[IPython-dev] How to display really long strings?

[William Furnass]

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> From: Anders Schneiderman <ASchneiderman at asha.org>
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:18:48 -0400
> Subject: [IPython-dev] How to display really long strings?
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> I need to do a series of transformations to a column in a pandas data frame that contains very long strings. When I try to display the column via head, etc, IPython Notebook truncates it - a totally understandable approach for most long strings, but it means I can't see whether the transformations were done properly. Any thoughts about a one-off workaround? I took a look at the documentation but couldn't figure out how to do it.

Have you tried changing the following pandas output display options?

pandas.set_option('display.width', 1000)
pandas.set_option('display.max_colwidth', 100)

Regards,

Will