DEPR: Index.to_native_types by jorisvandenbossche · Pull Request #36418 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Those can indeed be potentially useful, but some of them are exposed through display options already, if you want to control how your dataframe is formatted.

Further, I think the main thing is that we simply don't want to have this method in this form public ;) And I mainly wanted to give some alternative (for the default arguments), can also leave it out if will only confuse.
There has been discussion about a generic format() method (#17211)