Filtering and comparing dates with Pandas

Question

I would like to know how to filter different dates at all the different time levels, i.e. find dates by year, month, day, hour, minute and/or day. For example, how do I find all

Answer 1

If you set timestamp as index and dtype as datetime to get a DateTimeIndex, then you can use the following Partial String Indexing syntax:

df['2014'] # gets all 2014
df['2014-01'] # gets all Jan 2014
df['01-02-2014'] # gets all Jan 2, 2014