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?

Answer 1

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.

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

print(df.columns.tolist())

Answer 2

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']

Answer 3

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.