Pretty printing newlines inside a string in a Pandas DataFrame

Using pandas .set_properties() and CSS white-space property

[For use in IPython notebooks]

Another way will be to use pandas's pandas.io.formats.style.Styler.set_properties() method and the CSS "white-space": "pre-wrap" property:

from IPython.display import display

# Assuming the variable df contains the relevant DataFrame
display(df.style.set_properties(**{
    'white-space': 'pre-wrap',
})

To keep the text left-aligned, you might want to add 'text-align': 'left' as below:

from IPython.display import display

# Assuming the variable df contains the relevant DataFrame
display(df.style.set_properties(**{
    'text-align': 'left',
    'white-space': 'pre-wrap',
})

If you're trying to do this in ipython notebook, you can do:

from IPython.display import display, HTML

def pretty_print(df):
    return display( HTML( df.to_html().replace("\\n","<br>") ) )