How to calculate difference between Dates in Python?
This recipe helps you calculate difference between Dates in Python
Recipe Objective
Have you worked on dates in python? Have you tried to find difference between the dates?
So this is the recipe on how we can calculate difference between Dates in Python.
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Table of Contents
Step 1 - Import the library
import pandas as pd
We have only imported pandas which is needed.
Step 2 - Creating a Date Frame
We have created a data frame with Time stamp on which we will perform the operation.
df = pd.DataFrame()
df["Date1"] = [pd.Timestamp("01-01-2017"),
pd.Timestamp("01-04-2017")]
df["Date2"] = [pd.Timestamp("01-01-2017"),
pd.Timestamp("01-06-2017")]
Step 3 - Finding Difference
We are using two methods for better understanding, one by directly finding the difference and another by using delta function on the two features.
print(df["Date2"] - df["Date1"])
print(pd.Series(delta.days for delta in (df["Date2"] - df["Date1"])))
So the output comes as
0 0 days
1 2 days
dtype: timedelta64[ns]
0 0
1 2
dtype: int64
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