[http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/dsintro.html ]
Many lines in the ipython cells are truncated, which makes learning pandas extra frustrating and complicated.
Expected is that docs would contain all the information needed for understanding and not be limited by the formatting.
Comment From: TomAugspurger
Are you able to scroll over to the right?
Comment From: marilyndavis
Yes, thank you! Is there a way to change the formatting so that I can print it? That's what I really like to do. Again, thank you.
Comment From: TomAugspurger
I'm not sure about printing from the HTML, that may depend on your browser and OS.
There is the PDF version at http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/pandas.pdf that may print better (though it does have formatting errors of its own).
Comment From: marilyndavis
Thank you again. You mean all the \\\\\\\\\\? I guess extra stuff is a lot better than missing stuff. It's only ugly.
Sometimes I think we are drowning in our tools.
So, should we consider this fixed? I don't think so. The pages should present correctly. It's a huge waste of time, mind-energy, and frustration for anyone trying to learn Pandas.
Is that what you mean by "No action"? It's not worth fixing?
Comment From: marilyndavis
My OS: OS X 10.11.6 Both Safari and Chrome present badly. Do things work well anywhere? Should I dig up an old Windows box?
Comment From: TomAugspurger
I think the issue is that your browser window is too narrow, not anything with pandas itself.
Comment From: marilyndavis
Wow thank you! I cannot find a way to un-zoom text only in Safari, although instructions say I should. But I did find a way to do it in Chrome. And all is well now. Thank you so so so much.
I guess, if a suggestion remains, it would be to tell people to look for a way to do this if the data are clipped.
Again. Thank you so much Tom.
Comment From: jorisvandenbossche
On my linux using both firefox or chrome, I get something like the figure @TomAugspurger posted above by default. So I think our docs itself are wide enough (we made it wider some time ago)
Comment From: marilyndavis
Thank you. Yes the docs are good. But the possibility that someone might have their font so that the important bits are truncated is there. I think it is worth mentioning this in a box where you have the first wide cell shown, but that's yours to decide. I'm a teacher so I hate for silly details, unrelated to the subject, to get in the way of someone's learning.
Thanks again for helping me. I now have all the docs in one pdf that I made with pdftk. I had to face python3 unicode pain to get that done. But I'm all good now and ready to rock.
Marilyn