Python | Pandas DatetimeIndex.day_name()
Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.
Pandas DatetimeIndex.day_name()
function return the day names of the DateTimeIndex with specified locale. The default locale is None in which case the names are returned in English language.
Syntax: DatetimeIndex.day_name(locale=None)
Parameters :
locale : locale determining the language in which to return the day name
Return : Index of day names
Example #1: Use DatetimeIndex.day_name()
function to return the names of the day for each entry in the DatetimeIndex object. Return the names of the days in French locale
import pandas as pd
didx = pd.DatetimeIndex(start = '2018-11-15 09:45:10' , freq = 'Q' , periods = 5 )
print (didx)
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Output :
Now we want to return the names of the days in French locale.
didx.day_name(locale = 'French' )
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Output :
As we can see in the output, the function has returned an Index object containing the names of the days in French.
Let’s return the name of the days in English
didx.day_name(locale = 'English' )
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Output :
Example #2: Use DatetimeIndex.day_name()
function to return the names of the day for each entry in the DatetimeIndex object. Return the names of the day in German locale
import pandas as pd
didx = pd.DatetimeIndex(start = '2015-03-02' , freq = 'M' , periods = 5 )
print (didx)
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Output :
Now we want to return the names of the days in German locale.
didx.day_name(locale = 'German' )
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Output :
As we can see in the output, the function has returned an Index object containing the names of the day in German locale.
Last Updated :
29 Dec, 2018
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