I just posted my first Stack Overflow question. I spent ages formatting a pandas dataframe table in the post. What steps do you use to post a pandas dataframe in a Stack Overflow question?
I searched for an answer and found this detailed post: How to make good reproducible pandas examples. I followed the instructions and used pd.read_clipboard, but I still had to spend a significant amount of time formatting the table to make it look correct.
I also found a similar question with only one answer with a downvote: How to display a pandas dataframe on a Stack Overflow question body.
I tried to copy the dataframe from Jupyter and pasting it into a Blockquote. As mentioned, I also ran pd.read_clipboard('\s\s+') in Jupyter to copy it to the clipboard and then posted it into a Blockquote. I also tried creating a table and posting the values in the table. All of these methods required that I tweak the formatting to make it look properly formatted.
Here is an example dataframe to use:
df = pd.DataFrame( [['Captain', 'Crunch', 72], ['Trix', 36, 'Rabbit'], ['Count', 'Chocula', 41], ['Tony', 54, 'Tiger'], ['Buzz', 28, 'Bee'], ['Toucan', 'Sam', 38]], columns=['first_name', 'last_name', 'age'])