calculate datetime-difference in years, months, etc. in a new pandas dataframe column

Question

I have a pandas dataframe looking like this:

Name    start        end
A       2000-01-10   1970-04-29

I want to add a new column providing the

Answer 1

Pretty much straightforward with relativedelta:

from dateutil import relativedelta

>>          end      start
>> 0 1970-04-29 2000-01-10

for i in df.index:
    df.at[i, 'diff'] = relativedelta.relativedelta(df.ix[i, 'start'], df.ix[i, 'end'])

>>          end      start                                           diff
>> 0 1970-04-29 2000-01-10  relativedelta(years=+29, months=+8, days=+12)