Pandas to_html cannot apply style

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> This is not an in-place operation: it returns a style which you can then
> render.
> 
> style = df.style.apply(function2, axis=1)
> html = style.render()
> 
> appears to work.

This was a missing link.
Thank you very very much Thomas. 

Regards and best wishes.