Pandas Get a List Of All Data Frames loaded into memory
You could list all dataframes with the following:
import pandas as pd
# create dummy dataframes
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'Col1' : list(range(100))})
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'Col1' : list(range(100))})
# check whether all variables in scope are pandas dataframe.
# Dir() will return a list of string representations of the variables.
# Simply evaluate and test whether they are pandas dataframes
alldfs = [var for var in dir() if isinstance(eval(var), pd.core.frame.DataFrame)]
print(alldfs) # df1, df2
building on previous answers ... this returns a list
import pandas as pd
%who_ls DataFrame
however, if you try to run a script it doesn't work
thus
import pandas as pd
sheets=[]
for var in dir():
if isinstance(locals()[var], pd.core.frame.DataFrame) and var[0]!='_':
sheets.append(var)
since some DataFrames will have a copy for internal use only and those start with '_'
I personally think this approach is much better (if in ipython).
import pandas as pd
%whos DataFrame