BUG: override DatetimeIndex.tolist so it returns a list of Timestamp objects, close #1437

Author: wesm

pandas/tseries/index.py

@@ -593,6 +593,12 @@ def asobject(self):
             raise ValueError(msg)
         return self._get_object_index()
 
+    def tolist(self):
+        """
+        See ndarray.tolist
+        """
+        return list(self.asobject)
+
     def _get_object_index(self):
         boxed_values = _dt_box_array(self.asi8, self.offset, self.tz)
         return Index(boxed_values, dtype=object)

pandas/tseries/tests/test_timeseries.py

@@ -1030,6 +1030,12 @@ def test_index_conversion(self):
 
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, DatetimeIndex, ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
 
+    def test_tolist(self):
+        rng = date_range('1/1/2000', periods=10)
+
+        result = rng.tolist()
+        self.assert_(isinstance(result[0], Timestamp))
+
     def test_object_convert_fail(self):
         idx = DatetimeIndex([NaT])
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, idx.astype, 'O')