Slice a Dataframe Index per year - Python - Pandas

Question

I have a dataframe with daily stock data for the last 10 years, here is a slice of the dataframe :

            ITUB4   ITUB3
DATE        
2007-04-26  13.46   11.12
2007-04-27  13.49   11.00
2007-04-30  13.19   10.92
2007-05-02  13.57   11.09
2007-05-03  13.90   11.25
... ... ...
2017-12-21  42.72   37.39
2017-12-22  42.52   36.99
2017-12-26  42.69   37.44
2017-12-27  42.46   37.46
2017-12-28  42.57   37.68
2641 rows × 2 columns

Is there an easy way to slice this dataframe per year ? I know it is possible to do it by using :

df['20061230':'20071231']

I was wondering if there was something like :

df.index.year['2017']

Answer 1

You can use df['2017'] or df.loc['2017']. pandas is smart enough to understand it is the year part of a DateTimeIndex (see docs).

I prefer loc as it is more obvious this is an index operation - not a column one.

df.loc['2017']
Out: 
            ITUB4  ITUB3
DATE                    
2017-12-21  42.72  37.39
2017-12-22  42.52  36.99
2017-12-26  42.69  37.44
2017-12-27  42.46  37.46
2017-12-28  42.57  37.68