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PandasGUI: A simple solution for Pandas DataFrame inspection from within VSCode

Published on 2^nd September 2025 Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

One of the things that I miss about Spyder when running Python scripts is the ability to look at DataFrames easily. Recently, I was checking a VAT return only for tmux to truncate how much of the DataFrame I could see in output from the print function. While closing tmux might have been an idea, I sought the DataFrame windowing alternative. That led me to the pandasgui package, which did exactly what I needed, apart from pausing the script execution to show me the data. The installed was done using pip:

pip install pandasgui

Once that competed, I could use the following code construct to accomplish what I wanted:

import pandasgui

pandasgui.show(df)

In my case, there were several lines between the two lines above. Nevertheless, the first line made the pandasgui package available to the script, while the second one displayed the DataFrame in a GUI with scrollbars and cells, among other things. That was close enough to what I wanted to leave me able to complete the task that was needed of me.