Convert timedelta64[ns] column to seconds in Python Pandas DataFrame

Question

A pandas DataFrame column duration contains timedelta64[ns] as shown. How can you convert them to seconds?

0   00:20:32
1   00:23:1         


        

Answer 1

We can simply use the pandas apply() function

def get_seconds(time_delta):
    return time_delta.seconds

def get_microseconds(time_delta):
    return time_delta.micro_seconds

time_delta_series = df['duration']

converted_series = time_delta_series.apply(get_seconds)
print(converted_series)