Time into duration/Session using Python

Question

I have 1 pandas data-frame with date and time. I want to add 1 more column called session, with values morning afternoon, evening, night.

   Time
   2016-07         


        

Answer 1

Use pd.cut to create bins for your session labels.

df.assign(session=pd.cut(df.Time.dt.hour,[0,6,12,18,24],labels=['Night','Morning','Afternoon','Evening']))

Output:

                 Time    session
0 2016-07-10 01:18:00      Night
1 2016-07-10 11:21:00    Morning
2 2016-07-10 17:29:00  Afternoon
3 2016-07-10 21:43:00    Evening