Extract day and month from a datetime object

Question

I have a column with dates in string format \'2017-01-01\'. Is there a way to extract day and month from it using pandas?

I have converted the column to

Answer 1

With dt.day and dt.month --- Series.dt

df = pd.DataFrame({'date':pd.date_range(start='2017-01-01',periods=5)})
df.date.dt.month
Out[164]: 
0    1
1    1
2    1
3    1
4    1
Name: date, dtype: int64

df.date.dt.day
Out[165]: 
0    1
1    2
2    3
3    4
4    5
Name: date, dtype: int64

Also can do with dt.strftime

df.date.dt.strftime('%m')
Out[166]: 
0    01
1    01
2    01
3    01
4    01
Name: date, dtype: object

Answer 2

Use dt to get the datetime attributes of the column.

In [60]: df = pd.DataFrame({'date': [datetime.datetime(2018,1,1),datetime.datetime(2018,1,2),datetime.datetime(2018,1,3),]})

In [61]: df
Out[61]:
        date
0 2018-01-01
1 2018-01-02
2 2018-01-03

In [63]: df['day'] = df.date.dt.day

In [64]: df['month'] = df.date.dt.month

In [65]: df
Out[65]:
        date  day  month
0 2018-01-01    1      1
1 2018-01-02    2      1
2 2018-01-03    3      1

Timing the methods provided:

Using apply:

In [217]: %timeit(df['date'].apply(lambda d: d.day))
The slowest run took 33.66 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached.
1000 loops, best of 3: 210 µs per loop

Using dt.date:

In [218]: %timeit(df.date.dt.day)
10000 loops, best of 3: 127 µs per loop

Using dt.strftime:

In [219]: %timeit(df.date.dt.strftime('%d'))
The slowest run took 40.92 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached.
1000 loops, best of 3: 284 µs per loop

We can see that dt.day is the fastest

Answer 3

This should do it:

df['day'] = df['Date'].apply(lambda r:r.day)
df['month'] = df['Date'].apply(lambda r:r.month)

Answer 4

A simple form:

df['MM-DD'] = df['date'].dt.strftime('%m-%d')