pandas, python - how to select specific times in timeseries

Question

I worked now for quite some time using python and pandas for analysing a set of hourly data and find it quite nice (Coming from Matlab.)

Now I am kind of stuck. I cr

Answer 1

In upcoming pandas 0.8.0, you'll be able to write

hour = ts.index.hour
selector = ((10 <= hour) & (hour <= 13)) | ((20 <= hour) & (hour <= 23))
data = ts[selector]