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R lubridate ymd Function in Python, Convert Integer To Date

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    R lubridate ymd Function in Python, Convert Integer To Date


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    〈R lubridate ymd Function in Python, Convert Integer To Date〉

     

    So many Python programmers complained about the inconvenience of datetime package. It’s not easy to use like ymd function of lubridate library in R, which can directly convert an integer to a date object, like 20200101 to 2020-0101. Though there are some improved packages to deal with date and time, ie.arrow. However, I don’t think it’s a good way to import bulk libraries to projects even not necessary. In my opinion, I prefer to build some custom functions based on common packages like datetime. You can refer to the other post 〈Import Custom Package/Library/Module In Python〉.

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    def str_replace_special(string, value=''):
    '''
    Remove special characters.
    '''
    import re
    results = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9 \n\.]', value, string)

    return results



    def ymd(series):
    '''
    Convert integer to date.
    '''
    if isinstance(series, str):
    series = str_replace_special(series)

    if isinstance(series, int) | isinstance(series, str):
    series = str(series)
    series = datetime.datetime(year = int(series[0:4]),
    month = int(series[4:6]),
    day = int(series[6:8]))

    return series

    In contrast, I use the function below to convert date object to integer to save memory.

    def simplify_date(obj):
        
        import datetime
        
        if isinstance(obj, int):
            return obj
        
        if (isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime)) or (isinstance(obj, datetime.date)):
            obj = obj.strftime('%Y%m%d')
            
        if isinstance(obj, str):
            obj = str_replace_special(obj)
        
        obj = int(obj)
        
        return obj

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