How to format IPython html display of Pandas dataframe?

Question

How can I format IPython html display of pandas dataframes so that

1. numbers are right justified
2. numbers have commas as thousands separator
3. lar

Answer 1

This question was asked a long time ago. Back then, pandas didn't yet include pd.Styler. It was added in version 0.17.1.

Here's how you would use this to achieve your desired goal and some more:

• Center the header
• right-align any number columns
• left-align the other columns.
• Add a formatter for the numeric columns like you want
• make it so that each column has the same width.

Here's some example data:

In [1]:
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,3)*2000, columns=['A','B','C'])
df['D'] = np.random.randint(0,10000,size=10)
df['TextCol'] = np.random.choice(['a','b','c'], 10)
df.dtypes

Out[1]:
A          float64
B          float64
C          float64
D            int64
TextCol     object
dtype: object

Let's format this using df.style:

# Construct a mask of which columns are numeric
numeric_col_mask = df.dtypes.apply(lambda d: issubclass(np.dtype(d).type, np.number))

# Dict used to center the table headers
d = dict(selector="th",
    props=[('text-align', 'center')])

# Style
df.style.set_properties(subset=df.columns[numeric_col_mask], # right-align the numeric columns and set their width
                        **{'width':'10em', 'text-align':'right'})\
        .set_properties(subset=df.columns[~numeric_col_mask], # left-align the non-numeric columns and set their width
                        **{'width':'10em', 'text-align':'left'})\
        .format(lambda x: '{:,.0f}'.format(x) if x > 1e3 else '{:,.2f}'.format(x), # format the numeric values
                subset=pd.IndexSlice[:,df.columns[numeric_col_mask]])\
        .set_table_styles([d]) # center the header

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Note that instead of calling .format on the subset columns, you can very well set the global default pd.options.display.float_format instead:

pd.options.display.float_format = lambda x: '{:,.0f}'.format(x) if x > 1e3 else '{:,.2f}'.format(x)