There are many time series-related objects in pandas that are used for manipulating, creating, and processing timestamp data. The following table gives a summary of time series-related objects:
|
Object |
Summary |
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datetime.datetime |
This is a standard Python datetime class. |
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Timestamp |
This is a pandas class derived from. datetime.datetime. |
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DatetimeIndex |
This is a pandas class and is implemented as an immutable numpy.ndarray of the Timestamp/datetime object type. |
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Period |
This is a pandas class representing a time period. |
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PeriodIndex |
This is a pandas class and is implemented as an immutable numpy.ndarray of the Period object type. |
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DateOffset |
DataOffset is used to move forward a date by a given number of valid dates (days, weeks, months, and so on). |
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timedelta |
Timedelta calculates the difference in time between two dates. |