What's the equivalent of cut/qcut for pandas date fields?

Question

Update: starting with version 0.20.0, pandas cut/qcut DOES handle date fields. See What\'s New for more.

pd.cut and pd.qcut now sup

Answer 1

How about using Series and putting the parts of the DataFrame that you're interested into that, then calling cut on the series object?

price_series = pd.Series(df.price.tolist(), index=df.recd)

and then

 pd.qcut(price_series, q=3)

and so on. (Though I think @Jeff's answer is best)