Set max string length in pandas

Question

I want my dataframe to auto-truncate strings which are longer than a certain length.

basically:

pd.set_option('auto_truncate_string_exceeding_this_length', 255)

Any ideas? I have hundreds of columns and don't want to iterate over every data point. If this can be achieved during import that would also be fine (e.g. pd.read_csv())

Thanks.

Answer 1

pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', 255)