How to obtain the month name of a Timestamp object in Pandas

Overview

The month_name()function of Pandas.Timestamp—an equivalent of Python's datetime object—is used to return the name of the month of the Timestamp object.

Syntax

Timestamp.month_name()

Parameter value

The month_name() function takes a single optional parameter value, locale, which represents the language in which the month name is returned.

Return value

The month_name() function returns a str, which represents the month name.

Example

# A code to illustrate the month_name() function in Pandas

# importing the pandas library

import pandas as pd



# creating a Timestamp object

a = pd.Timestamp(2022, 4, 29)



# obtaining the month name of the Timestamp object

print(a.month_name())

Explanation

  • Line 3: We import the Pandas library.
  • Line 6: We use the Pandas.Timestamp() function to create a Timestamp object, a.
  • Line 9: We use the month_name() function to obtain and print the month name of the date time object.

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