I would like to ask a question regarding converting datetime only to time. I have values ‘Date Created” that include Dates and Times in one column and I would like to create two columns: one with only Date and one with Time. I wrote a code but in Time column I got a default date of 1900-01-01 alon…
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Using datetime.strptime when data is a little messy : extra spaces, Jan or January
Currently the text I am dealing with are dates with a somewhat standard format, however the data isn’t super clean. For example the text can be in these formats: I’m not quite sure how to deal with this. I want to convert these strings into 2021-01-01 format. My plan was to convert to datetime obj…
Generate list of random datetimes in ISO8601 format in Python
I want to generate a list of length n with random datetime strings in Python within a range. I had asked a similar question before, but I did not use the correct format for datetime.What is the best way to achieve this? Answer Modifying the answer here for your format: https://stackoverflow.com/a/553448/79428…
Python Dataframe find difference between datetime rows and convert to seconds
I have a data frame with the DateTime index. I want to find the difference between row datetimes and convert it into seconds. My code: Present output: How do I convert the timedif column into total seconds? Answer Simply do: Example:
Can not force stop python script using ctrl + C
Normally to force stop python script that are running, we normal just press Ctrl + C (in Interactive console). In this case, it does not stop, when I press Ctrl + C. Here is my code for this situation: I want it to force it to stop before the 20seconds is reached. Please help explain why this happened and hel…
How to format a mysql datetime yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy in Python?
My python code retrieves a datetime column from a mySql server database. I can print the datetime as it is stored on the server (ex. 2018-10-22, however I need to print it in a more readable way like 22-10-2018. Basically, row[0] holds datetime data as the code below. Thanks for any help. Answer If your time …
python psycopg2 select current_timestamp problem with timezone
I’m calling a simple select to obtain current timestamp with timezone with psycopg2 and it’s retrieving UTC time instead of my local time (-3). datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 13, 20, 49, 47, 931834, tzinfo=psycopg2.tz.FixedOffsetTimezone(offset=0, name=None)) In postgresql I’m doing: This retrie…
How to get an extended dataframe with consecutive datetime rows?
I have a pandas dataframe which looks like this: The type of column Time is datetime64[ns, pytz.FixedOffset(60)](1), float64(7), int64(1), frequency of this column is 2H. I now want to extend the dataframe by new dates in order to get a dataframe like this one: Answer This function should do the work. As para…
Allow two datetime format using raise ValueError python
I have two csv files with two different format which are ‘%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S’ and ‘%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S’. Hence, I will get such ValueError : Sample data from file1.csv where month is in the middle: While file2.csv, month is at front : The column comes as String then I require to transform…
Pandas DateTime for Month
I have month column with values formatted as: 2019M01 To find the seasonality I need this formatted into Pandas DateTime format. How to format 2019M01 into datetime so that I can use it for my seasonality plotting? Thanks. Answer Use to_datetime with format parameter: