String formatting of timedeltas in Pandas

Question

I noticed that Pandas knows how to smartly format a timedelta object into a string.

In [1]: df[column][rows].max()
Out[1]: 
0   2 days, 02:08:07         


        

Answer 1

The function is located here:

pd.tslib.repr_timedelta64

In action:

In [11]: pd.tslib.repr_timedelta64(np.timedelta64(180487000000000,'ns'))
Out[11]: '2 days, 02:08:07'