pandas.Grouper

class pandas.Grouper(*args, **kwargs)[source]

A Grouper allows the user to specify a groupby instruction for an object.

This specification will select a column via the key parameter, or if the level and/or axis parameters are given, a level of the index of the target object.

If axis and/or level are passed as keywords to both Grouper and groupby, the values passed to Grouper take precedence.

Parameters

key:str, defaults to None

Groupby key, which selects the grouping column of the target.

level:name/number, defaults to None

The level for the target index.

freq:str / frequency object, defaults to None

This will groupby the specified frequency if the target selection (via key or level) is a datetime-like object. For full specification of available frequencies, please see here.

axis:str, int, defaults to 0

Number/name of the axis.

sort:bool, default to False

Whether to sort the resulting labels.

closed:{‘left’ or ‘right’}

Closed end of interval. Only when freq parameter is passed.

label:{‘left’ or ‘right’}

Interval boundary to use for labeling. Only when freq parameter is passed.

convention:{‘start’, ‘end’, ‘e’, ‘s’}

If grouper is PeriodIndex and freq parameter is passed.

base:int, default 0

Only when freq parameter is passed. For frequencies that evenly subdivide 1 day, the “origin” of the aggregated intervals. For example, for ‘5min’ frequency, base could range from 0 through 4. Defaults to 0.

Deprecated since version 1.1.0: The new arguments that you should use are ‘offset’ or ‘origin’.

loffset:str, DateOffset, timedelta object

Only when freq parameter is passed.

Deprecated since version 1.1.0: loffset is only working for .resample(...) and not for Grouper (GH28302). However, loffset is also deprecated for .resample(...) See: DataFrame.resample

origin:{{‘epoch’, ‘start’, ‘start_day’, ‘end’, ‘end_day’}}, Timestamp

or str, default ‘start_day’ The timestamp on which to adjust the grouping. The timezone of origin must match the timezone of the index. If a timestamp is not used, these values are also supported:

• ‘epoch’: origin is 1970-01-01

• ‘start’: origin is the first value of the timeseries

• ‘start_day’: origin is the first day at midnight of the timeseries

New in version 1.1.0.

• ‘end’: origin is the last value of the timeseries

• ‘end_day’: origin is the ceiling midnight of the last day

New in version 1.3.0.

offset:Timedelta or str, default is None

An offset timedelta added to the origin.

New in version 1.1.0.

dropna:bool, default True

If True, and if group keys contain NA values, NA values together with row/column will be dropped. If False, NA values will also be treated as the key in groups.

New in version 1.2.0.

Returns

A specification for a groupby instruction

Examples

Syntactic sugar for df.groupby('A')

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(
...     {
...         "Animal": ["Falcon", "Parrot", "Falcon", "Falcon", "Parrot"],
...         "Speed": [100, 5, 200, 300, 15],
...     }
... )
>>> df
   Animal  Speed
0  Falcon    100
1  Parrot      5
2  Falcon    200
3  Falcon    300
4  Parrot     15
>>> df.groupby(pd.Grouper(key="Animal")).mean()
        Speed
Animal
Falcon  200.0
Parrot   10.0

Specify a resample operation on the column ‘Publish date’

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(
...    {
...        "Publish date": [
...             pd.Timestamp("2000-01-02"),
...             pd.Timestamp("2000-01-02"),
...             pd.Timestamp("2000-01-09"),
...             pd.Timestamp("2000-01-16")
...         ],
...         "ID": [0, 1, 2, 3],
...         "Price": [10, 20, 30, 40]
...     }
... )
>>> df
  Publish date  ID  Price
0   2000-01-02   0     10
1   2000-01-02   1     20
2   2000-01-09   2     30
3   2000-01-16   3     40
>>> df.groupby(pd.Grouper(key="Publish date", freq="1W")).mean()
               ID  Price
Publish date
2000-01-02    0.5   15.0
2000-01-09    2.0   30.0
2000-01-16    3.0   40.0

If you want to adjust the start of the bins based on a fixed timestamp:

>>> start, end = '2000-10-01 23:30:00', '2000-10-02 00:30:00'
>>> rng = pd.date_range(start, end, freq='7min')
>>> ts = pd.Series(np.arange(len(rng)) * 3, index=rng)
>>> ts
2000-10-01 23:30:00     0
2000-10-01 23:37:00     3
2000-10-01 23:44:00     6
2000-10-01 23:51:00     9
2000-10-01 23:58:00    12
2000-10-02 00:05:00    15
2000-10-02 00:12:00    18
2000-10-02 00:19:00    21
2000-10-02 00:26:00    24
Freq: 7T, dtype: int64

>>> ts.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='17min')).sum()
2000-10-01 23:14:00     0
2000-10-01 23:31:00     9
2000-10-01 23:48:00    21
2000-10-02 00:05:00    54
2000-10-02 00:22:00    24
Freq: 17T, dtype: int64

>>> ts.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='17min', origin='epoch')).sum()
2000-10-01 23:18:00     0
2000-10-01 23:35:00    18
2000-10-01 23:52:00    27
2000-10-02 00:09:00    39
2000-10-02 00:26:00    24
Freq: 17T, dtype: int64

>>> ts.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='17min', origin='2000-01-01')).sum()
2000-10-01 23:24:00     3
2000-10-01 23:41:00    15
2000-10-01 23:58:00    45
2000-10-02 00:15:00    45
Freq: 17T, dtype: int64

If you want to adjust the start of the bins with an offset Timedelta, the two following lines are equivalent:

>>> ts.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='17min', origin='start')).sum()
2000-10-01 23:30:00     9
2000-10-01 23:47:00    21
2000-10-02 00:04:00    54
2000-10-02 00:21:00    24
Freq: 17T, dtype: int64

>>> ts.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='17min', offset='23h30min')).sum()
2000-10-01 23:30:00     9
2000-10-01 23:47:00    21
2000-10-02 00:04:00    54
2000-10-02 00:21:00    24
Freq: 17T, dtype: int64

To replace the use of the deprecated base argument, you can now use offset, in this example it is equivalent to have base=2:

>>> ts.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='17min', offset='2min')).sum()
2000-10-01 23:16:00     0
2000-10-01 23:33:00     9
2000-10-01 23:50:00    36
2000-10-02 00:07:00    39
2000-10-02 00:24:00    24
Freq: 17T, dtype: int64

Attributes

ax
groups