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

Try the below code segment:

from IPython.display import display
display(df.head())

Answer 2

 DataFrame.head(n=5)

Return the first n rows.

This function returns the first n rows for the object based on position. It is useful for quickly testing if your object has the right type of data in it.

Parameters:

n : int, default 5

Number of rows to select.

Returns:

obj_head : type of caller

The first n rows of the caller object.

Answer 3

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)?