How to obtain the hour of the day component of a period in pandas

Overview

The hour attribute of a Period object in pandas is used to return the hour of the day component of the Period object.

Syntax

The hour attribute takes the syntax below:

Period.hour
Syntax for the hour attribute

Parameter value

The hour attribute takes no parameter value.

Return value

The hour attribute returns an int between 0 and 23 which indicates the hour of the day.

Example

# A code to illustrate the hour attribute

# importing the pandas library

import pandas as pd



# creating a Period object

a = pd.Period('2022-5-2 13:03:12.050000')



# obtaining the hour of the day

b = a.hour



# printing the value

print(f'It is the {b}th hour of the day.')

Explanation

  • Line 3: We import the pandas library.
  • Line 6: We create a Period object a.
  • Line 9: We obtain the hour of the year from the Period object using the hour attribute. We assign the result to a variable, b.
  • Line 12: We print the value of b.

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