# dask.dataframe.DataFrame.to_string

DataFrame.to_string(max_rows=5)

  Render a DataFrame to a console-friendly tabular output.

  > This docstring was copied from pandas.core.frame.DataFrame.to_string.

  > Some inconsistencies with the Dask version may exist.

  Parameters:
    buf str, Path or StringIO-like, optional, default None (Not supported in Dask)

      > Buffer to write to. If None, the output is returned as a string.

      columnsarray-like, optional, default None (Not supported in Dask)

        The subset of columns to write. Writes all columns by default.

      col_spaceint, list or dict of int, optional (Not supported in Dask)

        The minimum width of each column. If a list of ints is given every integers corresponds with one column. If a dict is given, the key references the column, while the value defines the space to use..

      headerbool or list of str, optional (Not supported in Dask)

        Write out the column names. If a list of columns is given, it is assumed to be aliases for the column names.

      indexbool, optional, default True (Not supported in Dask)

        Whether to print index (row) labels.

      na_repstr, optional, default ‘NaN’ (Not supported in Dask)

        String representation of `NaN` to use.

      formatterslist, tuple or dict of one-param. functions, optional (Not supported in Dask)

        Formatter functions to apply to columns’ elements by position or name. The result of each function must be a unicode string. List/tuple must be of length equal to the number of columns.

      float_formatone-parameter function, optional, default None (Not supported in Dask)

        Formatter function to apply to columns’ elements if they are floats. This function must return a unicode string and will be applied only to the non-`NaN` elements, with `NaN` being handled by `na_rep`.

      sparsifybool, optional, default True (Not supported in Dask)

        Set to False for a DataFrame with a hierarchical index to print every multiindex key at each row.

      index_namesbool, optional, default True (Not supported in Dask)

        Prints the names of the indexes.

      justifystr, default None (Not supported in Dask)

        How to justify the column labels. If None uses the option from the print configuration (controlled by set_option), ‘right’ out of the box. Valid values are

        - left

        - right

        - center

        - justify

        - justify-all

        - start

        - end

        - inherit

        - match-parent

        - initial

        - unset.

      max_rowsint, optional

        Maximum number of rows to display in the console.

      max_colsint, optional (Not supported in Dask)

        Maximum number of columns to display in the console.

      show_dimensionsbool, default False (Not supported in Dask)

        Display DataFrame dimensions (number of rows by number of columns).

      decimalstr, default ‘.’ (Not supported in Dask)

        Character recognized as decimal separator, e.g. ‘,’ in Europe.

    line_width int, optional (Not supported in Dask)

      Width to wrap a line in characters.

    min_rows int, optional (Not supported in Dask)

      The number of rows to display in the console in a truncated repr (when number of rows is above max_rows).

    max_colwidth int, optional (Not supported in Dask)

      Max width to truncate each column in characters. By default, no limit.

    encoding str, default “utf-8” (Not supported in Dask)

      Set character encoding.

  Returns:
    str or None

      If buf is None, returns the result as a string. Otherwise returns None.

  See also

  `to_html`

    Convert DataFrame to HTML.

  Examples

      >>> d = {'col1': [1, 2, 3], 'col2': [4, 5, 6]}
      >>> df = pd.DataFrame(d)
      >>> print(df.to_string())
         col1  col2
      0     1     4
      1     2     5
      2     3     6