Max & Min Date in Python Pandas DataFrame -
i have dataframe, tmp_contracts, looks this:
trade date futures 0 3/26/2004 k (may 04) 1 3/29/2004 k (may 04) 2 3/30/2004 k (may 04) 3 3/31/2004 k (may 04) 4 4/1/2004 k (may 04) ... 19416 03/11/2014 x (nov 14) 19417 03/12/2014 x (nov 14) 19418 03/13/2014 x (nov 14) 19419 03/14/2014 x (nov 14) 19420 03/17/2014 x (nov 14)
i trying pivot data frame can identify minimum , maximum trade date given contract, not working intuitively:
in [517]: tmp_contracts.pivot_table(rows='futures', aggfunc=[min, max]).head() out[517]: min max futures trade date trade date f (jan 05) futures trade date f (jan 06) futures trade date f (jan 07) futures trade date f (jan 08) futures trade date f (jan 09) futures trade date
i don't quite understand why happening way. intuition suggest, me, result in minimum , maximum dates in above dataset. missing?
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