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Create a Pandas Timestamp and date_range Object

Create a Pandas Timestamp and date_range Object

Let's find out how to use a pandas Timestamp and date_range.

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Python 3.8
import pandas as pd
start = pd.Timestamp.fromtimestamp(0).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
times = pd.date_range(start=start, freq='M', periods=2)
print(times)

Explanation

There are couple of puzzling things here:

  • M is a month frequency.
  • The first date is January 31st and not January 1st.

Let’s start with M being a month frequency. You’ve probably used the infamous strftime or its cousin strptime to convert datetime to or from strings. In those cases, M stands for minute:

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