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ENH: Add support for more units in pandas.Timedelta #37301

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rohan-gt opened this issue Oct 21, 2020 · 2 comments
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ENH: Add support for more units in pandas.Timedelta #37301

rohan-gt opened this issue Oct 21, 2020 · 2 comments
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Currently pandas.Timedelta only support units upto weeks. Can it be extended to months, quarters, years etc.?
@rohan-gt rohan-gt added Enhancement Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels Oct 21, 2020
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In pandas, Timedelta represents an exact time span. And larger units like months or years cannot be generally represented by a fixed number of seconds (or nanoseconds).

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jreback commented Oct 21, 2020

see #36838 for why this is going away

@jreback jreback added Timedelta Timedelta data type and removed Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels Oct 21, 2020
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