Select DataFrame rows between two dates

Question

I am creating a DataFrame from a csv as follows:

stock = pd.read_csv(\'data_in/\' + filename + \'.csv\', skipinitialspace=True)

The DataFra

Answer 1

Keeping the solution simple and pythonic, I would suggest you to try this.

In case if you are going to do this frequently the best solution would be to first set the date column as index which will convert the column in DateTimeIndex and use the following condition to slice any range of dates.

import pandas as pd

data_frame = data_frame.set_index('date')

df = data_frame[(data_frame.index > '2017-08-10') & (data_frame.index <= '2017-08-15')]