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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({"x": [1, 2, 3], "y": [4, 5, 6]})
print(df.to_string(line_width=1).replace(" ", "."))

Output (Pandas 2.0.1):

...x...
0..1..\
1..2...
2..3...

...y..
0..4..
1..5..
2..6..

Output (Pandas 1.5.3):

...x..\
0..1...
1..2...
2..3...

...y..
0..4..
1..5..
2..6..

Issue Description

When df.to_string() doesn't fit the line width, in Pandas 1.5.3 a backslash is added at the end of the headers line, or at the end of the first data line if no headers are present.

In Pandas 2.0.1, instead, the backslash is added at the end of the first data line even when the headers are present.

The regression is a consequence of the changes in https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/49738

I think that the old behaviour is desired, and I can submit a PR with a possible fix.

Expected Behavior

The backslash should be printed at the end of the headers line when they are present, as it was in Pandas 1.5.3.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 37ea63d540fd27274cad6585082c91b1283f963d python : 3.10.8.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 3.10.0-1160.42.2.el7.x86_64 Version : #1 SMP Tue Aug 31 20:15:00 UTC 2021 machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : en_US.UTF-8 LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8 pandas : 2.0.1 numpy : 1.24.2 pytz : 2023.3 dateutil : 2.8.2 setuptools : 67.7.2 pip : 23.1.2 Cython : None pytest : None hypothesis : None sphinx : None blosc : None feather : None xlsxwriter : None lxml.etree : None html5lib : None pymysql : None psycopg2 : None jinja2 : None IPython : 8.12.0 pandas_datareader: None bs4 : None bottleneck : None brotli : None fastparquet : None fsspec : None gcsfs : None matplotlib : None numba : None numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : None pandas_gbq : None pyarrow : None pyreadstat : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : None snappy : None sqlalchemy : None tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None zstandard : None tzdata : 2023.3 qtpy : None pyqt5 : None

Comment From: GianlucaFicarelli

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