Pandas: Return Hour from Datetime Column Directly

Question

Assume I have a DataFrame sales of timestamp values:

timestamp               sales_office
2014-01-01 09:01:00     Cincinnati
2014-01-01 09:11:00         


        

Answer 1

Here is a simple solution:

import pandas as pd
# convert the timestamp column to datetime
df['timestamp'] = pd.to_datetime(df['timestamp'])

# extract hour from the timestamp column to create an time_hour column
df['time_hour'] = df['timestamp'].dt.hour