Summing over months with pandas

Question

I know there is a simple implementation to do this but I cannot remember the syntax. Have a simple pandas time series and I want to summarize the data by month. Specific

Answer 1

In [1]: import pandas as pd
        from numpy.random import randn

In [2]: df = Series(randn(500), index=pd.date_range('2012-01-01', periods=500))

In [3]: s2 = df.groupby([lambda x: x.year, lambda x: x.month]).sum()

In [4]: s2
Out[4]: 
2012  1      3.853775
      2      4.259941
      3      4.629546
      4    -10.812505
      5    -16.383818
      6     -5.255475
      7      5.901344
      8     13.375258
      9      1.758670
      10     6.570200
      11     6.299812
      12     7.237049
2013  1     -1.331835
      2      3.399223
      3      2.011031
      4      7.905396
      5      1.127362
dtype: float64