Is it possible to set qgrid as the default dataframe renderer?

[shuvrobiswas]

Hi quantopian,

Thanks for this excellent package!

I am wondering, is it possible to make qgrid the default renderer for dataframes, so that I can simply type

df

shift+enter and see a qgrid (without the need to import qgrid, or use any additional syntax)?

This would be very useful in terms of adopting qgrid for all of my projects.

Best,
Shuvro

[lengau]

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a qgrid developer, just a user.

This would probably require merging qgrid into pandas, since Jupyter notebook gets the HTML used for displaying the DataFrame by running its _repr_html_ method, so it's unlikely to happen any time soon.

[ssanderson]

Closing this as a dupe of #8. From the discussion there, I believe this is already possible (and in fact the IPython team did some work to make this possible specifically for QGrid). @ellisonbg made an example notebook for this at https://gist.github.com/ellisonbg/5c54f995bfcd64b90dc2, though it's a year old now and a lot has changed in that time, so I'm not 100% sure it still works.