Pretty-print an entire Pandas Series / DataFrame

You can also use the option_context, with one or more options:

with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_columns', None):  # more options can be specified also
    print(df)

This will automatically return the options to their previous values.

If you are working on jupyter-notebook, using display(df) instead of print(df) will use jupyter rich display logic (like so).

No need to hack settings. There is a simple way:

print(df.to_string())

Sure, if this comes up a lot, make a function like this one. You can even configure it to load every time you start IPython: https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/1/config/overview.html

def print_full(x):
    pd.set_option('display.max_rows', len(x))
    print(x)
    pd.reset_option('display.max_rows')

As for coloring, getting too elaborate with colors sounds counterproductive to me, but I agree something like bootstrap's .table-striped would be nice. You could always create an issue to suggest this feature.

After importing pandas, as an alternative to using the context manager, set such options for displaying entire dataframes:

pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)  # or 1000
pd.set_option('display.max_rows', None)  # or 1000
pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', None)  # or 199

For full list of useful options, see:

pd.describe_option('display')