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Description
Not sure if this is a bug or not.
import datetime
In [24]: s = pd.Series(pd.to_datetime(['2015-01-01', '2015-02-02']))
In [25]: s
Out[25]:
0 2015-01-01
1 2015-02-02
dtype: datetime64[ns]
In [26]: s.diff() / datetime.timedelta(1)
Out[26]:
0 NaN
1 32
dtype: float64
In [27]: s.diff().div(datetime.timedelta(1))
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-27-1197779902ae> in <module>()
----> 1 s.diff().div(datetime.timedelta(1))
C:\Miniconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\ops.pyc in flex_wrapper(self, other,
level, fill_value, axis)
716 level=level, fill_value=fill_value)
717 else:
--> 718 return self._constructor(op(self.values, other),
719 self.index).__finalize__(self)
720
TypeError: ufunc true_divide cannot use operands with types dtype('<m8[ns]') and
dtype('O')
Works with our Timedelta though, as suggested by the error message:
In [28]: s.diff().div(pd.Timedelta(1, unit='D'))
Out[28]:
0 NaN
1 32
dtype: float64
It at least seems strange that /
worked while .div
didn't.
This is the released 0.15.2, and python 2.