pandas.DataFrame.to_period

DataFrame.to_period(freq=None, axis=0, copy=None)[source]

Convert DataFrame from DatetimeIndex to PeriodIndex.

Convert DataFrame from DatetimeIndex to PeriodIndex with desired frequency (inferred from index if not passed).

Parameters:

freq:str, default

Frequency of the PeriodIndex.

axis:{0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’}, default 0

The axis to convert (the index by default).

copy:bool, default True

If False then underlying input data is not copied.

Note

The copy keyword will change behavior in pandas 3.0. Copy-on-Write will be enabled by default, which means that all methods with a copy keyword will use a lazy copy mechanism to defer the copy and ignore the copy keyword. The copy keyword will be removed in a future version of pandas.

You can already get the future behavior and improvements through enabling copy on write pd.options.mode.copy_on_write = True

Returns:

DataFrame

The DataFrame has a PeriodIndex.

Examples

>>> idx = pd.to_datetime(
...     [
...         "2001-03-31 00:00:00",
...         "2002-05-31 00:00:00",
...         "2003-08-31 00:00:00",
...     ]
... )

>>> idx
DatetimeIndex(['2001-03-31', '2002-05-31', '2003-08-31'],
dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq=None)

>>> idx.to_period("M")
PeriodIndex(['2001-03', '2002-05', '2003-08'], dtype='period[M]')

For the yearly frequency

>>> idx.to_period("Y")
PeriodIndex(['2001', '2002', '2003'], dtype='period[Y-DEC]')