How to include end date in pandas date_range method?

Question

From pd.date_range(\'2016-01\', \'2016-05\', freq=\'M\', ).strftime(\'%Y-%m\'), the last month is 2016-04, but I was expecting it to be 2016

Answer 1

For the later crowd. You can also try to use the Month-Start frequency.

>>> pd.date_range('2016-01', '2016-05', freq='MS', format = "%Y-%m" )
DatetimeIndex(['2016-01-01', '2016-02-01', '2016-03-01', '2016-04-01',
               '2016-05-01'],
              dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='MS')