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Pandas 1.x Cookbook
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Before we get to pandas, it can help to be aware of and understand core Python's date and time functionality. The datetime
module provides three data types: date
, time
, and datetime
. Formally, a date
is a moment in time consisting of just the year, month, and day. For instance, June 7, 2013 would be a date
. A time
consists of hours, minutes, seconds, and microseconds (one-millionth of a second) and is unattached to any date. An example of time
would be 12 hours and 30 minutes. A datetime
consists of both the elements of a date
and time
together.
On the other hand, pandas has a single object to encapsulate date and time called a Timestamp
. It has nanosecond (one-billionth of a second) precision and is derived from NumPy's datetime64
data type. Both Python and pandas each have a timedelta
object that is useful when doing date addition and subtraction.
In this recipe, we will first explore...