Den 2021-01-05 skrev Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>: > Martin =?UTF-8?Q?Sch=C3=B6=C3=B6n?= <martin.sch...@gmail.com> writes: >>I have had some Python fun with COVID-19 data. I have done >>some curve fitting and to make that easier I have transformed >>date to day of year. Come end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 >>and this idea falls on its face. > > import datetime > > continuous_day_of_the_year = \ > ( datetime.date.today() - datetime.date( 2020, 1, 1 )).days > > Thanks guys, you got me on the right track. After some further meandering I did something close to what Stefan suggest above. I added a column to my Pandas data frame and populated it with
content of date column - datetime(2020, 1, 1) "regardless of what you have been told, recreational use of mathematics is harmless" I hope that is true for recreational programming as well :-) /Martin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list