From 2dda0c18a8abbbc1cac8d711fbd42237688b2667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joris Van den Bossche <jorisvandenbossche@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:14:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: delete removed Timedelta properties (see GH9257) from
 API overview + add docstring for components

---
 doc/source/api.rst       | 6 ------
 pandas/tseries/common.py | 9 +++++++++
 pandas/tseries/tdi.py    | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/api.rst b/doc/source/api.rst
index b6fd14f425bd0..9d40fe9114f97 100644
--- a/doc/source/api.rst
+++ b/doc/source/api.rst
@@ -498,10 +498,7 @@ Due to implementation details the methods show up here as methods of the
    :toctree: generated/
 
    TimedeltaProperties.days
-   TimedeltaProperties.hours
-   TimedeltaProperties.minutes
    TimedeltaProperties.seconds
-   TimedeltaProperties.milliseconds
    TimedeltaProperties.microseconds
    TimedeltaProperties.nanoseconds
    TimedeltaProperties.components
@@ -1358,10 +1355,7 @@ Components
    :toctree: generated/
 
    TimedeltaIndex.days
-   TimedeltaIndex.hours
-   TimedeltaIndex.minutes
    TimedeltaIndex.seconds
-   TimedeltaIndex.milliseconds
    TimedeltaIndex.microseconds
    TimedeltaIndex.nanoseconds
    TimedeltaIndex.components
diff --git a/pandas/tseries/common.py b/pandas/tseries/common.py
index c953c0961a596..7f6a0bc60dd57 100644
--- a/pandas/tseries/common.py
+++ b/pandas/tseries/common.py
@@ -139,6 +139,15 @@ def to_pytimedelta(self):
 
     @property
     def components(self):
+        """
+        Return a dataframe of the components (days, hours, minutes,
+        seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds) of the Timedeltas.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        a DataFrame
+
+        """
         return self.values.components.set_index(self.index)
 
 TimedeltaProperties._add_delegate_accessors(delegate=TimedeltaIndex,
diff --git a/pandas/tseries/tdi.py b/pandas/tseries/tdi.py
index 2afdff2982d8a..db23c42294fd5 100644
--- a/pandas/tseries/tdi.py
+++ b/pandas/tseries/tdi.py
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ def nanoseconds(self):
     @property
     def components(self):
         """
-        Return a dataframe of the components of the Timedeltas
+        Return a dataframe of the components (days, hours, minutes,
+        seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds) of the Timedeltas.
 
         Returns
         -------