IPython console: add horizontal scrolling bar

[Khalilsqu]

This is rather a feature request or an option for those who like it.

I use quite often pandas and sometimes the columns number is too large. Printing the columns and inspecting few first rows is a common practice. Spyder wraps the columns on top of each other and thus the user sometimes find it hard to analyse quickly the data specially if the work is done in lower than 15 inch laptop screen.

For example in Pycharm the IPython windows shows the full length of all columns. It includes a horizontal scroll bar if the screen size does not allow displaying all columns.

Therefore, is it possible to make an option for the user to show a scrolling bar in Qtconsole which should avoid long texts or Dataframes being wrapped around.

vscode!!

[nitrocalcite]

I had the same thought! Here's a (hacky) workaround: Target the underlying QTextEdit object. There are two, but the one we want appears to be the 3rd child widget of the main parent.

If you subclass RichJupyterWidget, you can use these commands to toggle the scrollbar:
self.children()[2].setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(QtCore.Qt.ScrollBarAlwaysOn)
and
self.children()[2].setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(QtCore.Qt.ScrollBarAlwaysOff)