The dt Accessor

How to work with dates in a DataFrame

In the previous lesson, we covered different ways to extract a piece of information from a Timestamp object. However, we only worked with a single object. In most cases, we don’t work with single values but with data stored in a DataFrame. A typical DataFrame of transactional sales at a retail store might contain millions of rows.

For instance, an operation that extracts the month from a date is performed on an entire column. The Pandas library also provides methods to perform such tasks, which are accessed via the dt accessor. The ...