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How to check if a date is the last day of a given month in pandas
Onyejiaku Theophilus ChidaluOverview
The is_month_end attribute in pandas.Timestamp (an equivalent of Python's DateTime object) is used to check if the given date is the last day of the month.
Syntax
Timestamp.is_month_end
Parameters
This attribute takes no parameter value.
Return value
This attribute returns a Boolean value. It returns True to indicate that the date is the last day of the month. Otherwise, it returns False.
Example
# A code to illustrate the .is_month_end attribute in Pandas # importing the pandas library import pandas as pd # creating Timestamp objects a = pd.Timestamp(2022, 4, 19) b = pd.Timestamp(2022, 4, 30) # checking if the dates is or are the last day of the month of April print(a.is_month_end) print(b.is_month_end)
Implementing the .is_month_end attribute
Explanation
- Line 3: We import the
pandaslibrary. - Line 6 and 7: We create time stamp objects,
aandb. - Line 10 and 11: We obtain and print to console, the result indicating which of
aandbis the last day of the month using theis_month_endattribute.
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