API/BUG: Indexing a DatetimeIndex by Period

[seth-p]

Curiously one can index a DatetimeIndex by the string representation of a Period, but not by an actual Period object. Is this intentional?

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In [1]: from pandas import Series, date_range, Period

In [2]: s = Series(range(365), index=date_range('2001-01-01', periods=365))

In [3]: s[str(Period('2001-03', 'M'))]
Out[3]:
2001-03-01    59
2001-03-02    60
2001-03-03    61
2001-03-04    62
2001-03-05    63
2001-03-06    64
2001-03-07    65
2001-03-08    66
2001-03-09    67
2001-03-10    68
2001-03-11    69
2001-03-12    70
2001-03-13    71
2001-03-14    72
2001-03-15    73
2001-03-16    74
2001-03-17    75
2001-03-18    76
2001-03-19    77
2001-03-20    78
2001-03-21    79
2001-03-22    80
2001-03-23    81
2001-03-24    82
2001-03-25    83
2001-03-26    84
2001-03-27    85
2001-03-28    86
2001-03-29    87
2001-03-30    88
2001-03-31    89
Freq: D, dtype: int32

In [4]: s[Period('2001-03', 'M')]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-64d0668f17a9> in <module>()
----> 1 s[Period('2001-03', 'M')]

C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\series.py in __getitem__(self, key)
    482     def __getitem__(self, key):
    483         try:
--> 484             result = self.index.get_value(self, key)
    485
    486             if not np.isscalar(result):

C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pandas\tseries\index.py in get_value(self, series, key)
   1256                 return self.get_value_maybe_box(series, key)
   1257             except (TypeError, ValueError, KeyError):
-> 1258                 raise KeyError(key)
   1259
   1260     def get_value_maybe_box(self, series, key):

KeyError: Period('2001-03', 'M')

[jreback]

dupe of #7710

[seth-p]

Per #7710 (comment), "a single period (e.g. only a single []) works", but that's not what I'm seeing...

[seth-p]

... to be clear, it's not working in 14.0.1. I haven't checked in master...

Sorry for the dupe...

[jreback]

Its the same issue. @seth-p no worries.....pull-requests welcome!

[seth-p]

not my bailiwick, I'm afraid.