How to show all columns' names on a large pandas dataframe?

Question:

I have a dataframe that consist of hundreds of columns, and I need to see all column names.

What I did:

In[37]:
data_all2.columns

The output is:

Out[37]:
Index(['customer_id', 'incoming', 'outgoing', 'awan', 'bank', 'family', 'food',
       'government', 'internet', 'isipulsa',
       ...
       'overdue_3months_feature78', 'overdue_3months_feature79',
       'overdue_3months_feature80', 'overdue_3months_feature81',
       'overdue_3months_feature82', 'overdue_3months_feature83',
       'overdue_3months_feature84', 'overdue_3months_feature85',
       'overdue_3months_feature86', 'loan_overdue_3months_total_y'],
      dtype='object', length=102)

How do I show all columns, instead of a truncated list?

Asked By: Nabih Bawazir

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Answers:

If you just want to see all the columns you can do something of this sort as a quick fix

cols = data_all2.columns

now cols will behave as a iterative variable that can be indexed. for example

cols[11:20]
Answered By: Rao Sahab

A quick and dirty solution would be to convert it to a string

print('t'.join(data_all2.columns))

would cause all of them to be printed out separated by tabs
Of course, do note that with 102 names, all of them rather long, this will be a bit hard to read through

Answered By: David L

To get all column name you can iterate over the data_all2.columns.

columns = data_all2.columns
for col in columns:
    print col

You will get all column names.
Or you can store all column names to another list variable and then print list.

Answered By: Ashwani Shakya

You can globally set printing options. I think this should work:

Method 1:

pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)
pd.set_option('display.max_rows', None)

Method 2:

pd.options.display.max_columns = None
pd.options.display.max_rows = None

This will allow you to see all column names & rows when you are doing .head(). None of the column name will be truncated.


If you just want to see the column names you can do:

print(df.columns.tolist())
Answered By: YOLO

In the interactive console, it’s easy to do:

data_all2.columns.tolist()

Or this within a script:

print(data_all2.columns.tolist())
Answered By: EEE

To obtain all the column names of a DataFrame, df_data in this example, you just need to use the command df_data.columns.values.
This will show you a list with all the Column names of your Dataframe

Code:

df_data=pd.read_csv('../input/data.csv')
print(df_data.columns.values)

Output:

['PassengerId' 'Survived' 'Pclass' 'Name' 'Sex' 'Age' 'SibSp' 'Parch' 'Ticket' 'Fare' 'Cabin' 'Embarked']
Answered By: pink.slash

What worked for me was the following:

pd.options.display.max_seq_items = None

You can also set it to an integer larger than your number of columns.

Answered By: S. Tibbitts

I had lots of duplicate column names, and once I ran

df = df.loc[:,~df.columns.duplicated()]

I was able to see the full list of columns

Credit:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/40435354/5846417

Answered By: R.K.

This will do the trick. Note the use of display() instead of print.

with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', 5, 'display.max_columns', None): 
    display(my_df)

EDIT:

The use of display is required because pd.option_context settings only apply to display and not to print.

Answered By: nico

I know it is a repetition but I always end up copy pasting and modifying YOLO’s answer:

pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 500)
pd.set_option('display.max_rows', 500)
Answered By: Tomas G.

you can try this

pd.pandas.set_option('display.max_columns', None)
Answered By: naimur978

Not a conventional answer, but I guess you could transpose the dataframe to look at the rows instead of the columns. I use this because I find looking at rows more ‘intuitional’ than looking at columns:

data_all2.T

This should let you view all the rows. This action is not permanent, it just lets you view the transposed version of the dataframe.

If the rows are still truncated, just use print(data_all2.T) to view everything.

Answered By: Aman

The easiest way I’ve found is just

list(df.columns)

Personally I wouldn’t want to change the globals, it’s not that often I want to see all the columns names.

Answered By: Sherman

The accepted answer caused my column names to wrap around. To show all the column names without wrapping, set both display.max_columns and the display.width:

pandas.set_option('display.max_columns', None)
pandas.set_option('display.width', 1000)
Answered By: Spirit of the Void

I may be off the mark but I came to this thread with the same type of problem I found this is the simple answer if you want to see everything in a long list and the index.

This is what I use in Spyder:

print(df.info()) 

or this be what is needed in Jupyter:

df.info()
Answered By: Chris Bergeron

You can do like this

df.info(show_counts=True)

It will show all the columns. Setting show_counts to True shows the count of not_null data.

Answered By: Abhishek Dutt

"df.types" gets all the columns of data frame ‘df’ as output as rows, and as a side bonus, you will also get the data type.

Answered By: StackOF

Try this one –

df.columns.values

Answered By: Hitul Adatiya
df.head(None)

In this way, you can see all things with a format data frame.
You need to write

data_all2.head(None)

My go-to function to print every column on my console is:

pandas.set_option('display.expand_frame_repr', False)
Answered By: João
for i in df2.columns.tolist():
  print(i)
Answered By: Roy Hwang

If you want to see the all columns in Pandas df.head(), then use this snippet before running your code. All column data will be visible.

pd.pandas.set_option('display.max_columns', None)

After this create your dataframe, and try this.

df.head()

It will print the all columns instead of showing "…." in larger dataset.

Answered By: Kushal Bhavsar
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