pandas.PeriodDtype — pandas 3.0.0.dev0+2098.g9c5b9ee823 documentation (original) (raw)

class pandas.PeriodDtype(freq)[source]#

An ExtensionDtype for Period data.

This is not an actual numpy dtype, but a duck type.

Parameters:

freqstr or DateOffset

The frequency of this PeriodDtype.

Attributes

Methods

See also

Period

Represents a single time period.

PeriodIndex

Immutable index for period data.

date_range

Return a fixed frequency DatetimeIndex.

Series

One-dimensional array with axis labels.

DataFrame

Two-dimensional, size-mutable, potentially heterogeneous tabular data.

Examples

pd.PeriodDtype(freq="D") period[D]

pd.PeriodDtype(freq=pd.offsets.MonthEnd()) period[M]