pandas.arrays.DatetimeArray.month_name — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)

DatetimeArray. month_name(locale=None)[source]

Return the month names of the DateTimeIndex with specified locale.

New in version 0.23.0.

Parameters: locale : str, optional Locale determining the language in which to return the month name. Default is English locale.
Returns: Index Index of month names.

Examples

idx = pd.date_range(start='2018-01', freq='M', periods=3) idx DatetimeIndex(['2018-01-31', '2018-02-28', '2018-03-31'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='M') idx.month_name() Index(['January', 'February', 'March'], dtype='object')