title: How to configure display output in IPython pandas
body: <p>I'm trying to configure my IPython output in my OS X terminal, but it would seem that none of the changes I'm trying to set are taking effect. I'm trying to configure the display settings such that wider outputs like a big <code>DataFrame</code> will output without any truncation or as the summary info.</p>
  
  <p>After importing pandas into my script, I have a few options set where I tried a whole bunch, but any one (or all, for that matter) does not seem to take effect. I'm running the script from IPython using <code>%run</code>. Am I doing something wrong here?</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  
  pd.set_option('display.expand_max_repr', False)
  pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 30)
  pd.set_option('display.width', None)
  pd.set_option('display.line_width', 200)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've looked at <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11707586/python-pandas-widen-output-display">some threads</a> on Stack and the <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/faq.html" rel="noreferrer">pandas FAQ</a> to no avail, even when using these under the display namespace (or without), as I've attempted here. </p>
  
  <p>I understand that there are some ways around this, such as calling <code>to_string()</code> or <code>describe()</code> methods on your output, but these are very manual, and don't always work as intended in some cases, like one where I have calling <code>to_string()</code> on a <code>groupby</code> object yields:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    id       type
  106125       puzzle       gameplay_id  sitting_id  user_id           ...
  106253       frames       gameplay_id  sitting_id  user_id           ...
  106260       trivia       gameplay_id  sitting_id  user_id           ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My terminal window size is more than sufficient to accommodate the width, and calling <code>pd.util.terminal.get_terminal_size()</code> is correctly finding the window size tuple, so it would seem that auto detecting the size isn't working either. Any insight would be appreciated!</p>