df.head() sometimes doesn't work in Pandas, Python

Question

I\'m a beginner in Python and the Pandas library, and I\'m rather confused by some basic functionality of DataFrame. I\'ve got a pandas DataFrame as below:

Answer 1

df.head(n) returns a DataFrame holding the first n rows of df. Now to display a DataFrame pandas checks by default the width of the terminal, if this is too small to display the DataFrame a summary view will be shown. Which is what you get in the second case.

Could you increase the size of your terminal, or disable autodetect on the columns by pd.set_printoptions(max_columns=10)?