To compute what fraction of the year has passed since the start of the year, use this function:

import pandas as pd

def fraction_of_year_passed(date):
    """Compute what fraction of the current year has already passed up to the given date"""
    start_of_year = pd.Timestamp(now.year, 1, 1)
    start_of_next_year = pd.Timestamp(now.year + 1, 1, 1)
    # Compute seconds in entire year and seconds since start of year
    entire_year_seconds = (start_of_next_year - start_of_year).total_seconds()
    seconds_since_start_of_year = (date - start_of_year).total_seconds()
    return seconds_since_start_of_year / entire_year_seconds

Usage example:

print(fraction_of_year_passed(pd.Timestamp("2020-03-01"))) # prints 0.16393442622950818

Detailed explanation:

First, we define that start of the calendar year date belongs to, and the start of the calendar year after that:

start_of_year = pd.Timestamp(now.year, 1, 1)
start_of_next_year = pd.Timestamp(now.year + 1, 1, 1)

Now we compute the number of seconds in the entire year and the number of seconds passed between the start of the year and date:

entire_year_seconds = (start_of_next_year - start_of_year).total_seconds()
seconds_since_start_of_year = (date - start_of_year).total_seconds()

The rest is simple: Just divide seconds_since_start_of_year / entire_year_seconds to obtain what fraction of the year has passed until date.

In our previous post we showed how to used the pendulum library in order to compute the number of days in a given year using the pendulum library.

This post shows how to achieve the same using pandas:

import pandas as pd
def number_of_days_in_year(year):
    start = pd.Timestamp(year, 1, 1)
    end = pd.Timestamp(year + 1, 1, 1)
    return (end - start).days)

Usage example:

print(number_of_days_in_year(2020)) # Prints 366
print(number_of_days_in_year(2021)) # Prints 365

Explanation:

First, we define the start date to be the first day (1st of January) of the year we’re interested in:

start = pd.Timestamp(year, 1, 1)

Now we generate the end date, which is the 1st of January of the following year:

end = pd.Timestamp(year + 1, 1, 1)

The rest is simple: Just compute the difference (end – start) and ask pandas to give us the number of days:

(end - start).days

In this example, we’ll create a list of pandas Timestamp objects that represent 100 consecutive days, starting at a fixed date:

start_date = pd.Timestamp("2020-03-01")

Generating the 100 consecutive days is easy:

all_days = [start_date + pd.Timedelta(d, "days") for d in range(100)]

Note that range(100) will generate all numbers from 0 up to and including 99. Hence, [pd.Timedelta(d, "days") for d in range(100)] will generate a list of Timedeltas that represent 0 days, 1 days, 2 days, …, 99 days.

Full example:

import pandas as pd

start_date = pd.Timestamp("2020-03-01")
all_days = [start_date + pd.Timedelta(d, "days") for d in range(100)]

print(all_days)