How to set the pandas dataframe data left/right alignment?

Question

I use pd.set_option(\"display.colheader_justify\",\"right\") to set the column header. But I can\'t find the option for data by pd.describe_option()

Answer 1

I wrapped @Hagbard's answer in a function to use it whenever I wish to display a pandas dataframe consisting English text on a notebook cell:

from pandas import DataFrame


def left_align(df: DataFrame):
    left_aligned_df = df.style.set_properties(**{'text-align': 'left'})
    left_aligned_df = left_aligned_df.set_table_styles(
        [dict(selector='th', props=[('text-align', 'left')])]
    )
    return left_aligned_df

To show a dataframe, I simply write this:

left_align(df.head())

Caution: For large datasets, it prints all the rows and columns of df without any abstraction, so Jupyter crashes! That's why I use it with .head() or .tail() or some other limit.)