Is there a pandas function to display the first/last n columns, as in .head() & .tail()?

Question

I love using the .head() and .tail() functions in pandas to circumstantially display a certain amount of rows (sometimes I want less, sometimes I w

Answer 1

You could just use df.col.head(n) for what your are trying to do... see example below,

df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [i for i in range(101)],
                   'b': [i for i in range(101)]})
df.a.head(4)

Out[37]:
0    0
1    1
2    2
3    3
Name: a, dtype: int64