from string to timedelta in pandas

Question

I have a dataframe where the timestamp is in the format HHHHH:MM

timestamp = pd.Series([\'34:23\',\'125:26\',\'15234:52\'], index=index)

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Answer 1

You can use pandas.Series.apply, i.e.:

def convert(args):
    return timedelta(hours=int(args[:-3]),minutes=int(args[-2:]))
s = pd.Series(['34:23','125:26','15234:52'])
s = s.apply(convert)