How to calculate number of years between two dates in different pandas columns

Question

One column has dates but the other has a string containing a date, so I first need to extract the date part from that string.

import pandas as pd
import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

# the dataframe - id column always starts with year, month and day
df = pd.DataFrame({'id': ['19520630F8', '19680321A5', '19711113E2'],
                   'dte': ['2010-06-02', '2007-08-12', '2013-01-23']})

# create a date string from df['id'] to the format yyyy-mm-dd
dob = (df['id'].str[:4] + '-' +
       df['id'].str[4:6] + '-' +
       df['id'].str[6:8])

# calculate age (years only) at df['dte']
df['age'] = relativedelta(date, dob).years

I get the error message:

ValueError: The truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all().

I don't understand the ambiguousness of my data, and where to apply those empty/bool/item... The df['dta'] column if of object data type and not datetime, but wrapping the creation of dob in pd.to_datetime wont help.

EDIT The expected output should be

          dte          id  age
0  2010-06-02  19520630F8   57
1  2007-08-12  19680321A5   39
2  2013-01-23  19711113E2   41

Answer 1

I believe need:

df['age'] = (np.floor((pd.to_datetime(df['dte']) - 
             pd.to_datetime(dob)).dt.days / 365.25)).astype(int)
print (df)
           id         dte  age
0  19520630F8  2010-06-02   57
1  19680321A5  2007-08-12   39
2  19711113E2  2013-01-23   41

Details:

Convert columns to datetimes and subtract:

print (pd.to_datetime(df['dte']) -  pd.to_datetime(dob))
0   21156 days
1   14388 days
2   15047 days
dtype: timedelta64[ns]

Convert to days and then to years:

print ((pd.to_datetime(df['dte']) -  pd.to_datetime(dob)).dt.days / 365.25)
0    57.921971
1    39.392197
2    41.196441
dtype: float64

Last floor values by numpy.floor.:

print ((np.floor((pd.to_datetime(df['dte']) - pd.to_datetime(dob)).dt.days / 365.25)))
0    57.0
1    39.0
2    41.0
dtype: float64