slice pandas timeseries on date +/- 2 business days

Question

having following timeseries:

In [65]: p
Out[65]: 
Date
2008-06-02    125.20
2008-06-03    124.47
2008-06-04    124.40
2008-06-05    126.89
2008-06-06    122.84
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Answer 1

You could use the index method get_loc, and then slice:

d = pd.to_datetime('2008-06-06')
loc = s.index.get_loc(d)

In [12]: loc
Out[12]: 4

In [13]: s[loc-2:loc+3]
Out[13]: 
2008-06-04    124.40
2008-06-05    126.89
2008-06-06    122.84
2008-06-09    123.14
2008-06-10    122.53
Name: SPY

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If you were just interested in those within two days:

In [14]: dt = datetime.timedelta(1)

In [15]: s[d - 2*dt:d + 2*dt]
Out[15]: 
2008-06-04    124.40
2008-06-05    126.89
2008-06-06    122.84
Name: SPY