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Pretty-print the head of a Pandas table in a Jupyter notebook and show its dimensions. Allows showing multiple tables per cell.
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head.py
from IPython.display import display, Markdown
import pandas as pd
def head(df: pd.DataFrame, n_rows:int=1) -> None:
"""Pretty-print the head of a Pandas table in a Jupyter notebook and show its dimensions."""
display(Markdown("**whole table (below):** {} rows × {} columns".format(len(df), len(df.columns))))
display(df.head(n_rows))
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