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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.to_period() function is used to cast the given DatetimeIndex to PeriodIndex at a particular frequency. The function basically converts DatetimeIndex to PeriodIndex.

Syntax: DatetimeIndex.to_period(freq=None)

Parameters :
freq : One of pandas offset strings or an Offset object. Will be inferred by default

Return : PeriodIndex

Example #1: Use DatetimeIndex.to_period() function to cast the data of the DatetimeIndex object to PeriodIndex.




# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
  
# Create the DatetimeIndex
# Here 'S' represents secondly frequency 
didx = pd.DatetimeIndex(start ='2018-11-15 09:45:10', freq ='S', periods = 5)
  
# Print the DatetimeIndex
print(didx)


Output :

Now we want to cast the DatetimeIndex object to PeriodIndex object.




# cast to PeriodIndex
# 'T' represents minute based frequency
didx.to_period('T')


Output :

As we can see in the output, the function has casted the DatetimeIndex object to PeriodIndex object.
 
Example #2: Use DatetimeIndex.to_period() function to cast the data of the DatetimeIndex object to PeriodIndex.




# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
  
# Create the DatetimeIndex
# Here 'T' represents minutely frequency 
didx = pd.DatetimeIndex(start ='2015-03-02 01:15:12', freq ='T', periods = 5)
  
# Print the DatetimeIndex
print(didx)


Output :

Now we want to cast the DatetimeIndex object to PeriodIndex object.




# cast to PeriodIndex
# 'H' represents hourly frequency
didx.to_period('H')


Output :

As we can see in the output, the function has casted the DatetimeIndex object to PeriodIndex object.



Last Updated : 29 Dec, 2018
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