# Is it possible to display pandas dataframe on button click without using print?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900>\
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**Created:** [September 15, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900 "2025-09-15T16:40:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![nasrin\_begum\_pathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/fbc32d/32.png) [@nasrin\_begum\_pathan](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/nasrin_begum_pathan)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900/1 "2025-09-15T16:40:19Z")

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import ipywidgets as widgets  
from IPython.display import display, clear\_output  
import pandas as pd

# Create a button and an output area

button = widgets.Button(description=“Click Me”)  
out = widgets.Output()

# Define the function to run on click

def on\_button\_clicked(b):  
with out:  
clear\_output()  
data = {‘Name’: [‘Tom’, ‘Nick’, ‘Krish’, ‘Jack’], ‘Age’: [20, 21, 19, 18]}  
df = pd.DataFrame(data)  
#print(df)

# Link the function to the button

button.on\_click(on\_button\_clicked)

# Display the button and output

display(widgets.VBox([button, out]))

Is it possible to use just “df” instead of “print(df)” on button click? just like pandas dataframe supports both “df” and “print(df)”

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900/2 "2025-09-15T17:03:57Z")

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You are looking for `display()`. That is generally the keyword for rendering **rich display** things in Jupyter. For example if you put `df` in a cell below your code and ran it, you’d get the equivalent of the `display(df)` without needing to type it. This is because the last expression in a cell is special and Jupyter tries to render in the rich manner appointed.  
You can see [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/75152056/8508004) and the links therein for more what is behind this. Or [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/75152056/8508004) for a somewhat similar issue.

One way to think about it is the `print()` would be for dataframes in a console or terminal, and `display()` would be for them in Jupyter.  
And you shouldn’t need to import it, in modern Jupyter.

Those changes implemented in your code (& **FORMATTED** for posting, see below):

```python
import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import clear_output # no need to import `display` usually, in general
import pandas as pd

#Create a button and an output area
button = widgets.Button(description='Click Me')
out = widgets.Output()

#Define the function to run on click
def on_button_clicked(b):
    with out:
        clear_output()
        data = {'Name': ['Tom', 'Nick', 'Krish', 'Jack'], 'Age': [20, 21, 19, 18]}
        df = pd.DataFrame(data)
        display(df)

#Link the function to the button
button.on_click(on_button_clicked)

#Display the button and output
display(widgets.VBox([button, out]))

```

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Minor:

Note how my code maintained the different levels of indenting in the post that you had now shared with us.

Please, learn about how to post code at such sites as this in useable form. To help you with that see about ‘block code formatting’ [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-code-or-preformatted-text/188910#block-code-formatting-6). (Or see about ‘fenced code blocks’ [here](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/251362/8508004). They are both the same thing if you look into the details.).  
Previously, I suggested you read [Getting good answers to your questions](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/getting-good-answers-to-your-questions/1825) , emphasizing the section entitled ‘Help others reproduce the problem’. Helping those trying to help you is what that section is about and formatting code correctly will help with that. As I said earlier, you can use GitHub gists to share notebook so you don’t have to copy/re-type all the code in your post, too. That way if you just want to post the key part , and not even format it, the person trying to help you can at least look at the notebook and get the formatted code.

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**Author:** ![nasrin\_begum\_pathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/fbc32d/32.png) [@nasrin\_begum\_pathan](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/nasrin_begum_pathan)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900/3 "2025-09-15T18:28:56Z")

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I am trying to display buckaroo rendered dataframe on button click and it supports only df display not print(df) nor display (df). Apologies for asking question in wrong way next time will surely follow the rules.

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900/4 "2025-09-15T18:55:07Z")

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> [@nasrin\_begum\_pathan](#):
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> I am trying to display buckaroo rendered dataframe on button click and it supports only df display not print(df) nor display (df).

Now sure what you mean? Buckaroo works with `display(df)`. This is after I click the button:

 ![buckaroo_works](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/3X/6/f/6f60a2f45b12810ce61a5e407400e25f037822c5.png)

Code run there:

```python
import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import clear_output
import pandas as pd

data = {'Name': ['Tom', 'Nick', 'Krish', 'Jack'], 'Age': [20, 21, 19, 18]}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
from buckaroo.buckaroo_widget import BuckarooWidget
BuckarooWidget(df) #df being the dataframe you want to explore

#Create a button and an output area
button = widgets.Button(description='Click Me')
out = widgets.Output()

#Define the function to run on click
def on_button_clicked(b):
    with out:
        clear_output()
        display(df)

#Link the function to the button
button.on_click(on_button_clicked)

#Display the button and output
display(widgets.VBox([button, out]))

```

Before I click the button, just the status of the default viewer was showing, along with the button.

The additional buckaroo lines come from the documentation [‘Using Buckaroo: In a Jupyter Lab notebook cell’](https://buckaroo-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#in-a-jupyter-lab-notebook-cell).

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**Author:** ![nasrin\_begum\_pathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/fbc32d/32.png) [@nasrin\_begum\_pathan](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/nasrin_begum_pathan)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900/5 "2025-09-15T23:07:56Z")

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It looks like issue for me.Buckaroo rendering will replace the pandas dataframe but here it displays both. [Screen Recording 2025 09 16 000035](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfWBQtDD3A) Displaying both is like what pyscript does.

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/is-it-possible-to-display-pandas-dataframe-on-button-click-without-using-print/37900/6 "2025-09-16T01:52:41Z")

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Please never just share the video. I understand here you thought it was useful to share the behavior and in this case it was useful for that; however, you should share your code you are running, too.  
You aren’t running the code I gave you. If you shared the code block you actually ran, you may have noticed that you weren’t using my code.  
Part of all the suggestions of these guides to how to post is that if you follow the process, often you’ll troubleshoot it yourself before you hit send on the post.

The code you are running looks like this:

```python
#Define the function to run on click
def on_button_clicked(b):
    with out:
        clear_output()
        display(df)
        print(df)

```

You have **both `display(df)` AND `print(df)`**.  
So it shows the `print()` version below the buckaroo rendering