ENH: Index Left Alignment Option in a DataFrame

[nataligracia]

I wish I could align the contents of the index in a DataFrame to the left.

I could set the index as a column, and then hide the remaining index. This is not ideal, because I'd like to keep the pandas dataframe index formatting (i.e. bolding). Currently, it is possible to left align the columns within dataframes, just not the index.

[attack68]

when displaying a DataFrame use Styler and you can control many properties,

e.g.

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(2,2), index=['Big School', 'Little School'], columns=['Data 1', 'More Data'])
df.style.format({'Data 1': '{:,.1f}', 'More Data': '{:,.3f}'})\
        .set_table_styles([{'selector': 'td', 'props': [('text-align', 'center'),
                                                        ('color', 'red')]},
                           {'selector': '.col_heading', 'props': [('text-align', 'right'),
                                                                  ('color', 'green'),
                                                                  ('width', '150px')]},
                           {'selector': '.row_heading', 'props': [('text-align', 'left'),
                                                                  ('color', 'blue')]}])

[nataligracia]

Thank you!