Assuming module foo
with method bar
:
import foo
method_to_call = getattr(foo, 'bar')
result = method_to_call()
You could shorten lines 2 and 3 to:
result = getattr(foo, 'bar')()
if that makes more sense for your use case.
You can use getattr
in this fashion on class instance bound methods, module-level methods, class methods... the list goes on.
The Date object will do what you want - construct one for each date, then compare them using the >
, <
, <=
or >=
.
The ==
, !=
, ===
, and !==
operators require you to use date.getTime()
as in
var d1 = new Date();
var d2 = new Date(d1);
var same = d1.getTime() === d2.getTime();
var notSame = d1.getTime() !== d2.getTime();
to be clear just checking for equality directly with the date objects won't work
var d1 = new Date();
var d2 = new Date(d1);
console.log(d1 == d2); // prints false (wrong!)
console.log(d1 === d2); // prints false (wrong!)
console.log(d1 != d2); // prints true (wrong!)
console.log(d1 !== d2); // prints true (wrong!)
console.log(d1.getTime() === d2.getTime()); // prints true (correct)
I suggest you use drop-downs or some similar constrained form of date entry rather than text boxes, though, lest you find yourself in input validation hell.
For the curious, date.getTime()
documentation:
Returns the numeric value of the specified date as the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC. (Negative values are returned for prior times.)
Best Answer
If date column is the index, then use .loc for label based indexing or .iloc for positional indexing.
For example:
See details here http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/dsintro.html#indexing-selection
If the column is not the index you have two choices:
df[(df['date'] > '2013-01-01') & (df['date'] < '2013-02-01')]
See here for the general explanation
Note: .ix is deprecated.