python pandas extract unique dates from time series

Question

I have a DataFrame which contains a lot of intraday data, the DataFrame has several days of data, dates are not continuous.

 2012-10-08 07:12:22            0.0          


        

Answer 1

If you have a Series like:

In [116]: df["Date"]
Out[116]: 
0           2012-10-08 07:12:22
1           2012-10-08 09:14:00
2           2012-10-08 09:15:00
3           2012-10-08 09:15:01
4    2012-10-08 09:15:01.500000
5           2012-10-08 09:15:02
6    2012-10-08 09:15:02.500000
7           2012-10-10 07:19:30
8           2012-10-10 09:14:00
9           2012-10-10 09:15:00
10          2012-10-10 09:15:01
11   2012-10-10 09:15:01.500000
12          2012-10-10 09:15:02
Name: Date

where each object is a Timestamp:

In [117]: df["Date"][0]
Out[117]: 

you can get only the date by calling .date():

In [118]: df["Date"][0].date()
Out[118]: datetime.date(2012, 10, 8)

and Series have a .unique() method. So you can use map and a lambda:

In [126]: df["Date"].map(lambda t: t.date()).unique()
Out[126]: array([2012-10-08, 2012-10-10], dtype=object)

or use the Timestamp.date method:

In [127]: df["Date"].map(pd.Timestamp.date).unique()
Out[127]: array([2012-10-08, 2012-10-10], dtype=object)