Checking pandas Timestamp for timezone string
Question:
In the code below I want to acquire the timezone of a pandas Timestamp supplied to a function:
import pandas as pd
import pytz
timestamp = pd.Timestamp("2022-05-01", tz='Europe/Paris')
print(timestamp.tzinfo)
This prints:
Europe/Paris
However, I would like to check whether the timezone matches the timezone that I want and return a boolean value, such as:
timestamp.tzinfo == 'Europe/Paris'
But this returns False. Is there anyone here who knows a clever of checking the timezone of a timezone aware pandas Timestamp?
Answers:
Checking the type
type(timestamp.tzinfo)
pytz.tzfile.Europe/Paris
We can see this is not a string, but some type of pytz object.
However if we look closer we can see there is a .zone which does return a string and is probably what you are looking for.
timestamp.tzinfo.zone == 'Europe/Paris'
True
In the code below I want to acquire the timezone of a pandas Timestamp supplied to a function:
import pandas as pd
import pytz
timestamp = pd.Timestamp("2022-05-01", tz='Europe/Paris')
print(timestamp.tzinfo)
This prints:
Europe/Paris
However, I would like to check whether the timezone matches the timezone that I want and return a boolean value, such as:
timestamp.tzinfo == 'Europe/Paris'
But this returns False. Is there anyone here who knows a clever of checking the timezone of a timezone aware pandas Timestamp?
Checking the type
type(timestamp.tzinfo)
pytz.tzfile.Europe/Paris
We can see this is not a string, but some type of pytz object.
However if we look closer we can see there is a .zone which does return a string and is probably what you are looking for.
timestamp.tzinfo.zone == 'Europe/Paris'
True