Dataframe as PNG object

[itang1]

Can we get the ability to return the styled Dataframe as a PNG object, without needing to save the image?

Even though dfi.export() is currently broken with respect to several situations (including on Google Colab), once I have the image object, I can use other means to save it.

This would address several issues, including #6 #7 #9 #13 #15

[znstrider]

Seconded, exporting the image into buffer / loading it into an array would be great, because that would allow us to show that image with plotting libraries like matplotlib.

[mvinoba]

Is there any workaround for this issue?

[kampelmuehler]

The only "workaround" is to save the image to disk temporarily.

[LiZhongyangLi]

You can feed it to a BytesIO object and show it in jupyter with Image from Ipython.display

[andrewqho]

@LiZhongyangLi I'm confused how that helps with downloading the styled object as a PNG file if all we're doing is displaying it

[JoeTinnySpace]

Any update on this? Would be handy to have the image as an object

[PaleNeutron]

It is easy and not related to this package. Just use io.BytesIO instead of filename.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from io import BytesIO
import dataframe_image

bio = BytesIO()
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(0, 100, size=(30, 20)))
df.dfi.export(bio)
image_data = bio.read()
# do whatever you want