How to access pandas DataFrame datetime index using strings

Question

This is a very simple and practical question. I have the feeling that it must be a silly detail and that there should be similar questions. I wasn\'t able to find them tho.

Answer 1

You can use the to_pydatetime function on your index so thus:

y[y.index.to_pydatetime() == datetime.datetime(2008,1,1)]