Finding label location in a DataFrame Index

Question

I have a pandas dataframe:

import pandas as pnd
d = pnd.Timestamp(\'2013-01-01 16:00\')
dates = pnd.bdate_range(start=d, end = d+pnd.DateOffset(days=10), nor         


        

Answer 1

Get dataframe integer index given a date key:

>>> import pandas as pd

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(
    index=pd.date_range(pd.datetime(2008,1,1), pd.datetime(2008,1,5)),
    columns=("foo", "bar"))

>>> df["foo"] = [10,20,40,15,10]

>>> df["bar"] = [100,200,40,-50,-38]

>>> df
            foo  bar
2008-01-01   10  100
2008-01-02   20  200
2008-01-03   40   40
2008-01-04   15  -50
2008-01-05   10  -38

>>> df.index.get_loc(df["bar"].argmax())
1

>>> df.index.get_loc(df["foo"].argmax())
2

In column bar, the index of the maximum value is 1

In column foo, the index of the maximum value is 2

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.Index.get_loc.html